In view of the new education policy, the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) has discontinued the old 4-year B.Ed courses (BA B.Ed and B.Sc. B.Ed). NCTE has invited applications from colleges to start four-year B.Ed course (fourth stage ITEP course). NCTE will run a four-year B.Ed course from the year 2025. Under the new education policy, NCTE has changed the format of B.Ed course. Colleges can apply for the four-year B.Ed course from April 1, 2024 to May 31, 2024. NCTE has also prepared standards for applying. Only those institutions which have received NAAC grading will be able to apply for this course. However, none of the 63 colleges of Muzaffarpur BRABU has received NAAC grading. Apart from NAAC, there should also be NIRF ranking of colleges.
The four-year integrated B.Ed course which is older than the academic session 2025-26 will be closed. The session of 2024-25 will be the last session of the old four-year B.Ed course. After this there will be no new admissions. Only the new four-year B.Ed integrated course ITEP (BA B.Ed and B.Sc B.Ed) will be run in various teacher training institutes.
NCTE has said that the recognition of those institutes which are already offering four-year integrated B.Sc. B.Ed and BA B.Ed courses will continue. At present, they will not be allowed to take admission of students till 2025 subject to the condition that they will convert to the new integrated B.Ed course ITEP (ITEP BEd) as per the amended regulations before the beginning of the academic session 2025-26. Any institute (B.Ed college or institute) running the old four-year integrated B.Ed course will not be allowed to make fresh admissions from the session 2025-26.
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Know what is ITEP course
NCTE) launched Integrated Teacher Education Program (ITEP) in 57 Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) including IITs, NITs, Central and State Universities across the country from the academic session 2023-24. This course was launched in March 2023. This is a flagship program of NCTE under NEP 2020. ITEP, which was notified on 26 October 2021, is a 4-year dual-composite undergraduate degree leading to B.A. B.Ed./ B.Sc B.Ed. / and B.Com B.Ed. Offers courses. This course will prepare teachers for the 4 stages of the new school education system given under the New Education Policy, i.e. Foundational, Preparatory, Middle and Secondary (5+3+3+4).
What will happen to 2 year B.Ed course?
At present, NCTE has not said anything in the notice regarding closure of two-year B.Ed course. No information has been released. But according to the provisions of the new education policy, after 2030, only those teachers will be recruited in schools who have done the new ITEP four-year B.Ed course. Two-year B.Ed will also run but it will be used for higher education.