National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)

The National Council for Teacher Education is a statutory body set up under the National Council for Teacher Education Act, 1993 to facilitate planned and coordinated development of the teacher education system in the country, and for regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in the teacher education system.

The mandate given to the NCTE is very broad and covers the whole gamut of teacher education programs including research and training of persons to equip 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.


Scope of NCTE

Undertake surveys and studies related to the various aspects of teacher education and publish results there of
Preparing suitable plans and programmes in the field of teacher education and make recommendations to central and state governments
Lay down guidelines for qualifications of staff, also for starting new courses or training and for providing physical and instructional facilities and for tuition fees and other fees chargeable by teacher education institutions
Lay down standards in respect of examinations leading to teacher education qualifications, deciding criteria for admission in various teacher education courses
Promote and conduct innovation and research in various areas of teacher education and disseminate the results their of
Conduct inspection to ascertain the functioning of the institutions and communicate the views there of
Recognize and derecognize the teacher education institutions and courses
Prepare and publish National Curriculum framework for teacher education
Provide financial Support for Research and Innovation in Teacher Education and awarding Best Researcher Award . It also gives award Best Teacher educator award
Publish useful instructional materials and journal entitled Anvekshika

Organizational Structure of NCTE

NCTE has its headquarter 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 Regional 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, in-service programmes. The NCTE Headquarters is headed by the Chairperson, while each Regional Committee is headed by a Regional Director.