Mohammed Younus/ Hyderabad: Students and aspirants to become teachers are wary of the proposed changes in the course duration and curriculum of the Teacher Education courses across the nation. Students feel that increasing the duration was unnecessary and will not serve the purpose of quality education.The centre had proposed to change the course duration, syllabus and pattern of the B.Ed and M.Ed programmes that are part of Teacher Education. According to the proposal, centre wanted to increase the duration of these courses with major changes in the curriculum as well.
"Centre had proposed to change course duration, syllabus for B.Ed, M.Ed that are part of Teacher Education"
This was proposed during the meeting convened by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and University Grants Commission (UGC) with Vice chancellors of all the universities. These changes may be adopted from next year by few Universities and will be completely implemented from 2016 in all the universities.Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education chairman L Venugopal Reddy said that MHRD was seriously contemplating to bring changes in the Teacher Education studies. He said, “To improve the quality of education and bring out more thorough teachers at Bachelor and Master levels it was proposed to increase the duration of B.Ed and M.Ed in all the universities.”
He also informed that central government wanted to convene another meeting with eminent educationists and professors to discuss on the current curriculum in the teacher education colleges. Previously the major changes in Teacher Education were brought in the year 1986 as part of the New Education Policy. There were proposals to amend the present pattern of Teacher Education for last five years. B.Ed grad Mohammed Khalid said that the proposal will not be in favor of students. He said that instead of increasing the duration the purview of syllabus should be increased and unnecessary subjects should be done away.
He said that in the government run B.Ed institutions there was a severe shortage of faculty and if the duration increases it will not serve the purpose of achieving the quality education.Another student Parimal Srinivas said that if government wanted to bring changes in the pattern it should also create job opportunities for the pass outs. He said, “Thousands of students are job less after completing the B.Ed and nothing good will happen to the students if duration is increased.” This programme will be on the lines of B A, B.Com and B.sc in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for 10+2 students.
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