Summer vacation in private Bed collages off as Govt. follows NCTE norms selectively
Rajendra Bora
Jaipur. The teachers and students in private Bed collages are braving grueling summer to complete their academic session 2009-10 with others. The State Government has instructed all the private Bed collages where admissions were delayed due to late counseling to do away with summer vacations and get their academic session regularized.
The counseling process for Bed courses was completed as late as in February this year. However, The National Council of Teachers Education (NCTE), a statutory body formed by an act of Parliament, mandates that annual examinations could be held only after completion of 180 days of teaching. Therefore, to regularize the 2009-10 session it is prudent to hold classes dispensing with summer vacations, official sources say.
All the concerned authorities have been instructed that in the collages where admissions were delayed and their academic calendar schedule of completing the course by June was not possible regular classes should be conducted in the period of summer vacations to regularize the academic year.
However, praising the government decision to follow NCTE’s norms in regularizing the academic year by dispensing with summer vacations in Bed collages, the experts hope that the State Government would act in a similar spirit to follow other norms of the NCTE to make BEd teaching more meaningful.
The experts feel that the government is making a complete mockery by keeping the Bed collages, affiliated to Universities, under administrative control of Secondary Education and paying the Bed teachers pay scales of school teachers.
Even the Universities, like Jai Narayan Vyas University in Jodhpur that run Bed courses on self financing basis, are not keeping most of the faculty on full time and regular basis.
There is a case of University of Rajasthan in Jaipur that run MEd course with just two full time and regular faculty against the NCTE norm of at least five full time and regular teachers for running Med course.
They point out that large number of Bed colleges in purely private sector and also those running on self financing basis were not following NCTE norms in Rajasthan like paying University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scales to the teachers teaching Bed courses.
Similarly the NCTE norm that the teachers in BEd collages should be appointed on “full time and regular basis” was being indiscriminately flouted in the state. It is the same case with the facilities of Provident Fund (PF) and Gratuity to the teachers working in Bed collages as the mushrooming private institutions were not paying any heed to the norms.
Even in government colleges some of the NCTE norms were not followed to the detriment of Bed teaching, they assert.
The education is in concurrent list of the Constitution and Centre could too make law even as it was a state subject. The Parliament has enacted the law to provide for NCTE. Therefore, the norms of NCTE would have to be followed by the State Government. In absence of that the degrees being given to BEd and MEd pass outs are virtually invalid.
(The story appeared in Jaipur Live of The Hindustan Times on May 24th, 2009)
Jaipur. The teachers and students in private Bed collages are braving grueling summer to complete their academic session 2009-10 with others. The State Government has instructed all the private Bed collages where admissions were delayed due to late counseling to do away with summer vacations and get their academic session regularized.
The counseling process for Bed courses was completed as late as in February this year. However, The National Council of Teachers Education (NCTE), a statutory body formed by an act of Parliament, mandates that annual examinations could be held only after completion of 180 days of teaching. Therefore, to regularize the 2009-10 session it is prudent to hold classes dispensing with summer vacations, official sources say.
All the concerned authorities have been instructed that in the collages where admissions were delayed and their academic calendar schedule of completing the course by June was not possible regular classes should be conducted in the period of summer vacations to regularize the academic year.
However, praising the government decision to follow NCTE’s norms in regularizing the academic year by dispensing with summer vacations in Bed collages, the experts hope that the State Government would act in a similar spirit to follow other norms of the NCTE to make BEd teaching more meaningful.
The experts feel that the government is making a complete mockery by keeping the Bed collages, affiliated to Universities, under administrative control of Secondary Education and paying the Bed teachers pay scales of school teachers.
Even the Universities, like Jai Narayan Vyas University in Jodhpur that run Bed courses on self financing basis, are not keeping most of the faculty on full time and regular basis.
There is a case of University of Rajasthan in Jaipur that run MEd course with just two full time and regular faculty against the NCTE norm of at least five full time and regular teachers for running Med course.
They point out that large number of Bed colleges in purely private sector and also those running on self financing basis were not following NCTE norms in Rajasthan like paying University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scales to the teachers teaching Bed courses.
Similarly the NCTE norm that the teachers in BEd collages should be appointed on “full time and regular basis” was being indiscriminately flouted in the state. It is the same case with the facilities of Provident Fund (PF) and Gratuity to the teachers working in Bed collages as the mushrooming private institutions were not paying any heed to the norms.
Even in government colleges some of the NCTE norms were not followed to the detriment of Bed teaching, they assert.
The education is in concurrent list of the Constitution and Centre could too make law even as it was a state subject. The Parliament has enacted the law to provide for NCTE. Therefore, the norms of NCTE would have to be followed by the State Government. In absence of that the degrees being given to BEd and MEd pass outs are virtually invalid.
(The story appeared in Jaipur Live of The Hindustan Times on May 24th, 2009)
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