TISS and Human Resource Ministry join efforts to upgrade BEd curriculum

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) along with state and central governments is working on upgrading the existing curriculum of B Ed. This will help in improving the quality of teachers in India.

The report will be submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) for consideration.

“The need of the hour is a revamped BEd curriculum. A panel with eminent academicians has been constituted to help redesign the syllabus in consultation with various state governments. We are also informally consulting the MHRD,” said TISS director S Parasuraman.

“There is a major problem with our education system and this result in students dropping out. There is a dearth of quality teachers. It is also difficult to get good educators who can train the future teachers. So we thought that can institutes like TISS fundamentally change education and training courses meant for teachers at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Hence, we will start education programmes for teachers and educators at our campuses. Simultaneously, we will work with the respective state governments to improve the state teacher training institutes,” Parasuraman said.

TISS is also starting MPhil and PhD programmes this year. The programme is being initiated at its Mumbai and Hyderabad campuses in 2012 with an intake of 30 students.

V. M. Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education signs MOU with Turismo de Portugal in presence of Hon’ble Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa

V. M. Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education (VMSIIHE), Manora-Raia, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Turismo de Portugal. The MOU was signed by Mr. Dattaraj V. Salgaocar, Chairman of VMSIIHE, and Mr. Luis Araújo, President of Turismo de Portugal, in the presence of the Hon’ble Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa who is presently in Goa on a state visit. Professor Irfan Mirza, Director of V. M. Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education lead the efforts in forging a collaboration between the two nations.

LED lighting inaugurated at Sharada Mandir School, Miramar as part of the Project STARS initiative

Faculty is the lifeblood of a university: Pranab Mukherjee

President of India, Pranab Mukherjee while speaking at the Twenty Third annual convocation of Pondicherry University said "I was a teacher before I joined public life. I know how satisfying it is for a teacher to give students the joy of learning; to make them appreciate, reflect and differentiate the strands of thinking; to make them worthy and willing to shoulder responsibility,"

Central Govt will spend Rs 600 cr for teacher training in 2012

The Central Government will be spending close to Rs 600 cr for training teachers as part of 12th Plan. Forum on Teacher's Challenges for Education for All (EFA) in India and the Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD), Kapil Sibal, called for a system for continuous and comprehensive evaluation of teachers. Kapil Sibal stressed the need to impart training to teachers so that they can provide education to students. According to a recent study the level of teachers in school has been very low and immediate attention from HRD ministry is required to fix this.

UGC-NET should not be abolished: AIFUCTO

The All India India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisation (AIFUCTO) is strongly opposing any attempts to abolish the National Eligibility Test (NET) "We have already indicated to the regulatory bodies certain issues. If these are resolved, it would make the NET efficient. But an attempt to do away with the test will only increase corruption in recruitment and lower the quality of teaching. But I believe that the exemption from the NET given to MPhil and PhD teachers should continue," general secretary of AIFUCTO Ashok Kumar Barman said.