INTRODUCTION
What Is NCTE ?
If You Want To Come In Education Field First You Should Know What Is NCTE ?
Full Form Of NCTE Is National Council for Teacher Education.
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 there under,
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.
OBJECTIVE
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 of 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.
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
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.
