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| Monday, September 20, 2008
Decline in candidates joining teacher training
institutes
Career option in primary schools gradually ceases to be an attraction
Tiruchi: A chunk of vacancies in several of the 36 teacher training
institutes in the district could not be filled even after the
last date for admissions this year, implying that the career
option of teaching in primary schools is gradually ceasing to
be an attraction for students.
Even the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET)
in the region had to wind up admissions without takers for a
few vacancies. That the candidates will have to wait for at
least a decade to get government posting is another matter altogether.
The Directorate of Teacher Education, Research and Training
(DTERT), which has decided to make its own assessment of the
facilities and manpower from this year, has accorded sanction
only for one institute in Tiruchi district for 2008-09 though
the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) had approved
nearly 10 applications. Of the remaining, a few could not fulfil
the infrastructure norm, and the remaining applicants have apparently
abandoned the initiative due to the perceived decline of teacher
training as an attractive option for students, informed the
Principal of DIET, Kumulur, Jamal Mohideen.
A couple of institutes that had been functioning from temporary
buildings for the past three years could face closure if the
NCTE declines their request for an extension for another year
for fulfilling the norm of moving into full-fledged permanent
facilities.
There are four to five institutes in the district that are yet
to take any serious step for moving into permanent buildings
even two years after commencement.
Failure to create the facilities in a year’s time could
push them also into a similar predicament, said Mr. Jamal Mohideen.
Besides infrastructure norms, the shortcomings on the faculty
front is what the Institutes find it difficult to rectify.
The managements of these institutes are not keen on spending
huge sums for creating the permanent infrastructure since as
per an interim court order, they cannot collect more than Rs.23,500
as annual tuition fee.
Until a few years ago, applicants had to shell out donations
of up to Rs.1 lakh in addition to the tuition fee to secure
a seat in a situation of intense demand. The glut situation
caused by the presence of over 600 teacher training institutions
across Tamil Nadu is now leading to their decline, it is learnt.
The NCTE, which has so far been according permission for applicants
to start teacher training institutes based on the details of
the building, land and infrastructure, is contemplating a move
to make it mandatory for institutes to furnish details of faculties
on their websites at the very outset, C. Thangamuthu, NCTE Chairman,
Bangalore, said.
Be it B.Ed. colleges or teacher training institutes, they will
have to abide by the NCTE’s whip restraining them from
going ahead with admissions before securing the NOC from State
Government. The NCTE is likely to withdraw permission if the
institutes do not fall in line, it is learnt.
Courtesy:
The Hindu |
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