CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has launched an online portal to simplify the process of recognition of teacher education programs in higher education institutions. The applications for the recently launched 4 years Integrated Teacher Education Programmes will be processed on this portal.

Detailed explanation-2: -NCTE launches online portal to streamline recognition process of teacher education programmes. National Council for Teacher Education has launched an online portal to streamline the entire process of recognition of teacher education programmes in Higher Education Institutions and Teacher Education Institutions.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) is a statutory body of Indian government set-up under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 (#73, 1993) in 1995 is to formally oversee standards, procedures and processes in the Indian education system.

Detailed explanation-5: -Teacher’s Training Schools–The first formal teacher‟s training School in India was set up at Serampur in Bengal in the name of “Normal School” by Carey, Marshman and Ward in 1793. In Bombay, the Native Education Society trained a number of teachers for the improvement of teaching in primary schools.