Odisha HRD

National Council of Teacher Education; eastern regional office in Bhubaneswar

Following is from their page http://www.ncte-in.org/theintro.htm.

National Council of Teacher Education

AT A GLANCE

INTRODUCTION

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 thereunder, 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.

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Adam Gross, design principal at the Baltimore architectural firm Ayers Saint Gross, discusses the design of Vedanta University in Maryland Radio

Adam Gross, design principal at the Baltimore architectural firm Ayers Saint Gross, discussed the design of Vedanta University with Tom Hall the Arts and Culture Contributor for Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast and the host of Choral Arts Classics on January 25 2008.

• The mp3 recording of the broadcast (9 minutes, about 9 MB)

Some of the new details about the university that I learned from listening to this broadcast are as follows:

• 2:35: The construction is expected to start in Spring 2008.
• 2:39: First classes are supposed to start in 2009.
• 2:41: First phase they plan to have 3100 students and 400 faculty in next 2 years.
• 2:54: Second phase they plan to have 10,000 students and reach that milestone in another 5 years.
• 3:02: Third phase they plan to have 40,000 students.
• 3:04: In 25 years they plan to reach build out of 100,000 students.

February 10th, 2008