[postlink]http://alertstrial.blogspot.com/2011/07/state-government-worried-because-of.html[/postlink]In Haryana, mushrooming private BEd colleges have created a menace with ongoing malpractices in these institutes. The worried state government has written to the HRD Ministry asking to rein in approvals to these colleges.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while writing to Kapil Sbal has informed that mushrooming of these colleges has resulted in commercialisation of teachers’ education in the state, “with serious threat to quality of education in schools as well”.
Hooda informed Sibal that the National Council of Teachers’ Education (NCTE) grants recognition to self-financing private BEd colleges. The policy framework of NCTE and the supporting rulings of courts obligate the state universities to grant affiliation to these colleges. The “liberal approach of NCTE” in granting permission, Hooda said, resulted in as many as 471 BEd colleges in the state, with 62,544 seats.
Hooda has asked the education minister to give state government a say in the granting recognition to new colleges.Haryana Principal Secretary Higher Education S S Prasad has also written to the secretary, Department of Secondary Education and Literacy.
Despite repeated counsellings and calls, 1,506 seats remained vacant last year, and 1,263 selected candidates did not join. Prasad informed the Union Secretary that the state government receives a large number of complaints about malpractices in these colleges.
“Degradation of quality of education in these institutes will also pose a threat to quality of education in schools,” he stated.
A college principal in Mahendragarh, who was part of the inspection team, revealed that a number of these colleges have offices in UP, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and various other states, with their agents spread out to get more and more admissions. “These colleges give the assurance to students that they do not have to come for classes, and can only come to give the exams, which again may be easily manipulated. They have no regular faculty and no standard infrastructure for classroom teaching either,” said the principal.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while writing to Kapil Sbal has informed that mushrooming of these colleges has resulted in commercialisation of teachers’ education in the state, “with serious threat to quality of education in schools as well”.
Hooda informed Sibal that the National Council of Teachers’ Education (NCTE) grants recognition to self-financing private BEd colleges. The policy framework of NCTE and the supporting rulings of courts obligate the state universities to grant affiliation to these colleges. The “liberal approach of NCTE” in granting permission, Hooda said, resulted in as many as 471 BEd colleges in the state, with 62,544 seats.
Hooda has asked the education minister to give state government a say in the granting recognition to new colleges.Haryana Principal Secretary Higher Education S S Prasad has also written to the secretary, Department of Secondary Education and Literacy.
Despite repeated counsellings and calls, 1,506 seats remained vacant last year, and 1,263 selected candidates did not join. Prasad informed the Union Secretary that the state government receives a large number of complaints about malpractices in these colleges.
“Degradation of quality of education in these institutes will also pose a threat to quality of education in schools,” he stated.
A college principal in Mahendragarh, who was part of the inspection team, revealed that a number of these colleges have offices in UP, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and various other states, with their agents spread out to get more and more admissions. “These colleges give the assurance to students that they do not have to come for classes, and can only come to give the exams, which again may be easily manipulated. They have no regular faculty and no standard infrastructure for classroom teaching either,” said the principal.
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