Farook Training College, Kozhikode

About Farook Training College, Kozhikode

Farook Training College, one of the premier institutions for Teacher Education under the University of Calicut. Farook Training College offers top-quality education and training to prospective teachers, with well established resources in terms of infrastructure, proficient faculty and vibrant curricular programmes. This educational gate way takes you to the expansive vista of a career that has been described- for good reason- as the best of all calling For the teacher’s is not just any career, but one that grooms the “Generation Next”, and sets the tone for posterity. The teacher moulds and directs the future by bringing up its human resources. It is a calling that touches alike the humble home and the wide world, the individual and society, the village and the metropolis, and fundamentally at that. There is in today’s talent-driven world a great demand for teachers of various disciplines, well trained and able to identify the latent potential of the students. The teacher’s profession is a composite skill that needs to be developed and nurtured to provide caliber, competence and commitment. And that is what you get at Farook Training College. At the same time, we understand it is a skill that cannot be seen in isolation but as part of the overall personal make–up of the teacher. Which is why we aim at the “Complete Teacher”. Above all, we offer courses that reckon with enduring human values combined with an eye for the ever-changing strategies of teaching.

The College offers courses designed by the University, but they are administered with unique imaginativeness and finesse. We deal with the nuances of human resource development and management, equip the trainees to cope with the changing profile of the profession, and familiarize them with the latest techniques and technology. Naturally, we also provide full residential facilities for the teacher trainee. Farook Training College is situated on a hillock that comprises an educational township, the ideal – and unique – location for the teacher trainee.Farook Training College, established in 1961 by Rauzathul Uloom Association, is the first teacher training college managed by Muslim Minority in the state to promote the cause of education in Malabar, to provide quality teacher education to all classes of people, to attract and encourage talented students towards teaching profession, especially from among financially and educationally backward Muslim minority students and the other marginalized sections of the society. The College was initially affiliated to the University of Kerala and later it was affiliated to University of Calicut in 1968. At present the college is providing courses in education at graduate and post g0raduate level at B.Ed level, it provide 7 optional subjects viz., Mathematics, Physical Science, natural science, Social Studies, English, Malayalam and Commerce. M.Ed course which was started at 1995 provides two electives viz., Educational technology, Guidance and counseling. IGNOU has identified this college as a programme centre for B.Ed Course. All the courses offered are recognized by National Council for teacher Education. The College has excellent infrastructure and premium faculty. The college is to make distinctive and eloquent contribution to the course of teacher education and to promote research in various branches of teacher education. The college seeks to nature the quest for excellence by assuring and providing opportunities that are equitable and accessible to students from backgrounds of any disadvantage and there by build their capacities through commitment to the profession and values of high stature. The harmoniously and symmetrically arranged college emblem presents a mix of nearly ten significant ingredients viz. a flaming torch in a firmly holding hand; a star at the center; the motto of the institution with the name of the institution inscribed underneath; coconut trees and a sea coast; an open book; ink-pot and pen; and an encircling crescent. The flaming torch in the hand of the seeker of knowledge symbolizes the dissemination of knowledge; the star signifies a steady source of light and wisdom imparted by the college; the motto of the institution means : “ Lord, Increase My Knowledge” ; the coconut trees and sea coast represent Kerala and Arabian sea, whose histories have always remained intertwined; the ink pot and pen signifies the dissemination of knowledge through writing; the open book symbolizes transparency and universal nature of knowledge imparted by the institution; while the encircling crescent signifies peace embracing varying sectors.