ROLE OF VARIOUS AGENCIES IN TEACHERS’ EDUCATION AT DIFFERENT LEVELS IN INDIA

Education

The Indian education system is moving a step ahead by shifting its focus from quantitative to qualitative education. A milestone step in this direction is through the establishment of teacher education agencies such as National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), University Grants Commission (UGC), National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), State Board of Teacher Education (SBTE), University Departments of Education (UDE) and District Institute of Educational Training (DIETs). There are arrangements for the training of both pre-service and in-service teachers at the National, State, and District levels in India. These agencies not only provide training to the teachers but also facilitate collaboration of teachers between the high level internationally recognized researchers and the teaching staff at the international universities (Kapur, 2018). DIETs is one of the agencies which provides training of both pre-service & in-service teachers at district levels. The state level agencies are SCERT, SBTE and UDE and the national level agencies are NCTE, NCERT, UGC and NUEPA. Each agency has different roles and responsibilities for pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes. The main purpose of these agencies is to improve of the quality of education in India. The centre of attention of this paper is to acknowledge the role of NCTE, NCERT, SCERT, SBTE and DIETs in teacher education at the National, State and District levels in India. The present paper is an attempt to analyze and relook the role of these agencies in improving the quality of education.

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