The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will soon offer a four-year Integrated Teacher Education Program or a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) course at its campuses. was announced by the union education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday inaugurated a new Kendriya Vidyalaya in the IIT Bhubaneswar campus.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that a four-year integrated teacher education program would be started in IITs and training for teachers would be provided as per the New Education Policy (NEP).
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The Union Minister tweeted, “This year under the National Policy on Education, a 4-year Integrated Teacher Education Program or ITP pilot model will be started to provide proper training to teachers. This will increase the efficiency of teachers and overall development of the students.
During the program, the minister also said that 15,000 PM Shree schools to be set up In the country, while more than 500-600 PM Shree Schools will be established in Odisha. The minister also said that PM Shree schools will be established in every block of the country, while over 500 PM Shree schools will be set up in Odisha. These schools will be run under the direct leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking to the media, the Union Education Minister wrote: “PM Shree School Scheme, the government under the leadership of PM has decided to open model schools in every block of the country. In the process, #Odisha will get more than 500 such schools.
The new KV campus, inaugurated by the minister yesterday, will educate students of classes 1 to 12. It is scheduled to be completed over a period of two years at a cost of Rs 25 crore.
Recently the Education Minister said that higher education institutions should target rapid growth towards building a future ready workforce and leverage technology to advance education.
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