Coming soon, a test to test the tester
11 Aug 2012 7:31 AM IST
With an eye to improve the quality and standard of teaching in the country, the government has envisaged a new plan to recruit school teachers. It will be done through a special eligibility test to be held on the lines similar to the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the recruitment of college teachers.
Sources in the Ministry of Human Resource Development told Millennium Post, 'The main purpose of this panel will be to focus on the CTET initiated taken by the ministry, which will be an entrance test similar to the NET conducted by the UGC for teachers applying to universities and colleges.'
Many times in the past, the union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has stressed the need to improve the professional competence of teachers at school and college levels. Now, he has constituted a special panel – the Central Advisory Board of Education Committee on National Mission on Teachers and Teaching – to look into the centrally conducted Central Teacher Eligibility Test [CTET], which will focus on hiring of school teachers at primary and secondary levels after they obtain a Bachelors in Education degree.
The panel will be headed by the minister of state in Sibal's ministry D Purandeswari. The panel will also look into ways to enhance availability of teachers to address an acute shortage in the sector.
The panel, which comprises seven state education ministers, four education secretaries and representatives of a number of academicians from various universities and institutes, has been asked to submit its report within six months.
A recent study shows that there are about 5.23 lakh vacancies for school teachers at elementary level, even as there will be an additional requirement of around 5.1 lakh teachers to fulfil the provisions of pupil teacher ratio specified under Right to Education (RTE) Act. Under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, about 1.79 lakh additional teachers need to be appointed in secondary schools.
The source in the ministry said, 'The main focus of this committee will be to look into the functioning of this test, which will be implemented in 23 states. It will also focus on making teaching in schools more attractive and respectable for potential teachers.'
Sources in the Ministry of Human Resource Development told Millennium Post, 'The main purpose of this panel will be to focus on the CTET initiated taken by the ministry, which will be an entrance test similar to the NET conducted by the UGC for teachers applying to universities and colleges.'
Many times in the past, the union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has stressed the need to improve the professional competence of teachers at school and college levels. Now, he has constituted a special panel – the Central Advisory Board of Education Committee on National Mission on Teachers and Teaching – to look into the centrally conducted Central Teacher Eligibility Test [CTET], which will focus on hiring of school teachers at primary and secondary levels after they obtain a Bachelors in Education degree.
The panel will be headed by the minister of state in Sibal's ministry D Purandeswari. The panel will also look into ways to enhance availability of teachers to address an acute shortage in the sector.
The panel, which comprises seven state education ministers, four education secretaries and representatives of a number of academicians from various universities and institutes, has been asked to submit its report within six months.
A recent study shows that there are about 5.23 lakh vacancies for school teachers at elementary level, even as there will be an additional requirement of around 5.1 lakh teachers to fulfil the provisions of pupil teacher ratio specified under Right to Education (RTE) Act. Under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, about 1.79 lakh additional teachers need to be appointed in secondary schools.
The source in the ministry said, 'The main focus of this committee will be to look into the functioning of this test, which will be implemented in 23 states. It will also focus on making teaching in schools more attractive and respectable for potential teachers.'
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