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INTRODUCTION |
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The National Council for Teacher Education, in its previous
status since 1973, was an advisory body for the Central
and State Governments on all matters pertaining to teacher
education, with its Secretariat in the Department of Teacher
Education of the National Council of
Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Despite its
commendable work in the academic fields, it could not perform
essential regulatory functions, to ensure maintenance
of standards in teacher education and preventing proliferation of
substandard teacher education institutions. The National Policy
on Education (NPE), 1986 and the Programme of Action thereunder,
envisaged a National Council for Teacher Education with statutory
status and necessary resources as a first step for overhauling the
system of teacher education. The National Council for Teacher Education
as a statutory body came into existence in pursuance of the
National Council for Teacher Education
Act, 1993 (No. 73 of 1993) on the 17th August,1995.
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OBJECTIVE
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The main objective of the NCTE is to achieve planned and
coordinated development of the teacher education system
throughout the country, the regulation and proper maintenance
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Norms and Standards in the teacher education system and for
matters connected therewith. The mandate given to the NCTE is very broad and covers the whole gamut of teacher
education programmes including research and training of persons for equipping them to teach at pre-primary,
primary, secondary and senior secondary stages in schools, and non-formal education, part-time education, adult
education and distance (correspondence) education courses. |
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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE |
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NCTE has its headquarder at New Delhi and four
Regional Committees at Banglore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar
and Jaipur to look after its statutory responsibilities.
In order to enable the NCTE to perform the assigned functions including planned and co-ordinated development and
initiating innovations in teacher education, the NCTE in Delhi as well as its four Reginal Committees have administrative
and academic wings to deal respectively with finance, establishment
and legal matters and with research, policy planning, monitoring,
curriculum, innovations, co-ordination, library and documentation,
inservice programmes. The NCTE Headquarters
is headed by the Chairperson, while each Regional Committee is headed by a Regional Director. |
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