98-year-old govt BEd college asked not to admit students

 98-year-old govt BEd college asked not to admit students

NCTE Sends Last Reminder Over Faculty Shortage

Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com

Chennai:17.09.2020

Ninety-eight-year-old Lady Willingdon Institute of Advanced Study in Education in Chennai which conducts admissions to all seven government colleges of education in the state every year has been told to stop admission for 2020-21due to vacant posts.

The prestigious government autonomous college admits 200 BEd students every year and has 17 faculty members against the required 39.

The southern regional committee of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), which met through video conference on September 14 and 15, decided to send a last reminder before withdrawal of the recognition.

The committee gave 90 days to fill the vacant posts in the institute and submit the relevant documents. “Till then, admissions for the academic session 2020-21 shall be deferred,” said the minutes of the meeting uploaded on the NCTE’s website.

“The NCTE increased the duration of the BEd course from one year to two in 2016. Following this, the staff strength must be doubled. Due to no recruitment in the past four years, the college has only half the required strength,” a faculty member said.

The council has also deferred admissions for 2020-21 in two other government colleges of education in Pudukottai and Komarapalayam due to shortage of faculty members. The faculty members of government colleges of education said the lacunae of Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University has resulted in stopping the admission for most sought-after colleges in the state. “The university should have inspected these colleges and warned the state government about the faculty shortage,” they said.