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News18
7 days ago
- Science
- News18
RPSC Senior Teacher Recruitment 2025: Registration For 6500 Posts To Begin On August 19, Details Here
RPSC has released the notification for 6,500 Senior Teacher posts. Apply online from August 19 to September 17, 2025. Eligibility, selection process, and fee details here. The Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has announced recruitment for Senior Teacher posts. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online through the official RPSC website at The application process for the RPSC Senior Teacher posts will begin on August 19, 2025, and the last date to submit applications is September 17, 2025. This recruitment drive aims to fill 6,500 Senior Teacher posts across different subjects. Candidates are advised to complete their registration well in advance of the deadline to avoid any last-minute issues. Eligibility Criteria For Subjects: Hindi, English, Mathematics, Sanskrit, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati Must have completed graduation or an equivalent degree recognised by the UGC, with the subject you want to teach as an optional subject. Must also have a Degree or Diploma in Education, recognised by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) or the Government. Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry. Must also have a Degree or Diploma in Education recognised by NCTE/Government. Must have completed graduation or equivalent with at least two of these subjects as optional: History, Geography, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Public Administration, Philosophy. A Degree or Diploma in Education recognised by NCTE/Government is also required. Age Limit The candidate should be between 18 to 40 years old. Age relaxations may apply as per government rules. Selection Process Selection will be done through a competitive examination. RPSC may also use methods like scaling, moderation, or normalisation if needed while evaluating answer sheets. Application Fee ₹600/- for General (Unreserved), Creamy Layer of Backwards Classes and Extremely Backwards Classes. ₹400/- for Reserved categories, including SC, ST, Backward Class (Non-Creamy Layer), Extremely Backward Class (Non-Creamy Layer), EWS, Sahariya Tribe, and Persons with Disabilities. view comments First Published: July 18, 2025, 15:11 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
The Hindu
13-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
NCTE is reviewing its ‘approved' draft regulations for overhauling teacher training programmes
Following calls for wider consultation and deeper reflection on the National Council for Teacher Education's (NCTE) proposed overhaul of teacher training regulations, NCTE is reviewing the draft regulations that were earlier passed by its council in March. 'We have gone into a larger consultation with the Ministry of Education (MoE), stakeholders, and experts before finalising the draft NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations 2025,' NCTE Chairperson Pankaj Arora told The Hindu. NCTE had come up with the new regulations for teacher training institutes after a gap of ten years, with the last revision being in 2014. The new draft regulations have been proposed to align with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The earlier approved draft, which has now gone under the scanner, outlines the process for recognising institutions for teacher education programmes, and also addresses the transition of existing teacher education programmes into new ones aligned with NEP 2020. NCTE had received up to 6,774 feedback responses between February 20 and March 8 when the draft was made public for comments, before it was approved by the council. In the minutes of the 63rd General Body meeting of NCTE held on March 19 and released on March 24, accessed by The Hindu, the NCTE council had accepted the recommendations of the expert committee and approved the NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure) Regulations, 2025. The council also decided that after approval from the Education Ministry and legal vetting from the Ministry of Law, the regulations will be notified in the Gazette of India. 'It is an evolving process and will not get done in one shot. We have not yet issued the Gazette Notification, so it is not finalised. It will be notified by the Ministry of Law after MoE approval,' Mr. Arora said. Padma Sarangapani, former NCTE member and professor, Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, said that in its current form, the draft regulations seem to offer no flexibility in deployment of teachers within broadly primary stage and middle/secondary stage as is the current practice. This is because the new regulations propose five segmentations in teacher education specialisations — first, being Foundation teachers from preschool to Grade 2, Preparatory for Grade 3, 4, 5 who are subject teachers in two subject areas — any two from language, maths, environmental sciences, arts, physical education, Middle school teachers for Grade 6, 7, 8, specialised in two subject areas aligned to the liberal discipline subject, and a similar structure is proposed for Secondary School teachers (Class 9, 10). 'It will also be difficult to fulfil all the deployment requirements in rural and remote areas. Generally, the proposal is not aligned to trends in the teacher labour market,' Ms. Sarangapani said. 'Private schools will not find it practical to employ teachers for such specific stages. Teachers will also not find it satisfying from a career point of view to be boxed into narrow specialisations, and at differential salaries,' she added. Teacher demand-supply gap Mr. Arora told The Hindu that NCTE has constituted an expert committee to look into the demand-supply gap of school teachers in the country. The committee consists of members from MoE, NITI Aayog, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), University of Delhi, State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERT). 'The committee will map needs according to various teacher training programmes, and specifically look at issues in rural and tribal areas and submit a report to NCTE within six months,' he said. Time extension for overhaul Noting that there are over 13,000 teacher training institutions under NCTE purview, Mr. Arora said they have been given a year's extension to transform into multidisciplinary institutions as required by NCTE under NEP 2020. As per the requirements of the Integrated Teacher Education Programme, which requires a dual degree study of B.A, or along with the teacher training institutes are expected to introduce and courses, additional infrastructure, library facilities, and faculty to support two additional Bachelor's degrees as per ITEP requirements. 'While all institutions are expected to gradually transition by 2030, we have allowed them until 2026-27 to start introducing the new ITEP degree. We are pushing the implementation period by a year, as institutes have been demanding more time to ramp up their facilities,' Mr. Arora said. Derecognition of institutes In the performance appraisal review of teacher training institutes conducted by NCTE in May and June, the regulatory body derecognised up to 2,224 institutes for their failure to fill appraisal forms. Of these, 872 institutes belong to the Southern region, 686 are from the Western region, 637 are from the Northern region, and 29 are from the Eastern part of the country. 'These are only the institutes which did not fill out appraisal forms. NCTE is also conducting online inspections of teacher training institutes for their inability to meet standards in terms of appointing faculty, number of students, infrastructure and library facilities,' Mr. Arora mentioned. NCTE has shifted from offline to online mode of checking by monitoring institutes, which includes tracking GPS coordinates of institute buildings, cross-checking faculty PAN information with institutional appointments, as the salaries have been tied up to PAN cards through Income Tax department, and so on, he explained. NCTE conducts this performance appraisal review every other year. 'At places, we found that one teacher was drawing salary from multiple institutes; we want to weed out such malpractices,' he said.
Time of India
10-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
Half of seats in MP colleges vacant after 3rd counselling
Indore: Despite three rounds of counselling, nearly half of the 6.5 lakh seats available across undergraduate (UG), postgraduate (PG), and teacher education courses in Madhya Pradesh remain vacant. So far, over 3.4 lakh students secured admissions for the 2025–26 academic session, prompting the Department of Higher Education (DHE) to consider conducting another CLC round to maximise seat utilisation. Admissions for CLC round closed on Thursday for UG and NCTE courses. Of the total admissions, more than 2.4 lakh students enrolled in UG programmes, around 62,000 through the first College Level Counselling (CLC) round and over 1.8 lakh in the earlier phases of online counselling. Teacher education courses regulated by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) witnessed one of the highest response rates among all programmes, with over 50,000 admissions secured against 58,000 available seats. The high enrolment in NCTE courses highlights a continued demand among students to enter the teaching profession. Postgraduate admissions are also progressing, with more than 48,000 students already admitted. The registration window for the PG CLC round closed on Thursday, with over 25,000 fresh registrations recorded. DHE revised the PG admission schedule following directions from the high court. Applicants for subjects outside the major-minor format will receive interview notifications with details of date, time, and venue by July 14. Interviews will be held between July 16 and 17, with colleges entering the marks on the admission portal soon after. PG seat allotment will be released on July 21, and selected students must complete fee payment between July 21 and 25 to confirm their admission. "The CLC round concluded with encouraging numbers, and a substantial number of students also registered for PG programmes," said Dr Tulsiram Dahayat, officer on special duty, DHE. With nearly half the seats still vacant after three rounds of counselling, another round of admissions is likely to follow to ensure maximum seat utilisation.
Hindustan Times
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
NCTE derecognises oved 2,962 teacher education institutions
New Delhi: The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has derecognised 2,962 Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) across the country for failing to submit their Performance Appraisal Reports (PARs) online for 2021-22 and 2022-23 despite show-cause notices issued to them in March and April. The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) (File Photo) These institutions will be unable to admit new students for the upcoming academic session 2025-26. However, students admitted up to the academic session 2024-2025 will be allowed to complete their programme. NCTE, the statutory body responsible for maintaining norms and standards in the teacher education system, mandated submission of PAR in September 2019 to ensure that recognised institutions comply with NCTE norms, standards, and guidelines. As part of the PAR submission process, colleges have to provide various documents to the council, including faculty details with qualification records, institutes' financial statements, and geo-tagged pictures and documents. NCTE had set December 30, 2024, as the final deadline for submitting PARs after granting a two-time extension. In February 2025, the commission formed a five-member expert committee, chaired by Harish Chandra Singh Rathore of the NCTE's Northern Regional Committee, to recommend actions against non-compliant institutions. In March and April 2025, NCTE issued show-cause notices to institutions that failed to submit PARs for 2021-22 and 2022-23. Subsequently, in April and May 2025, NCTE notified defaulter institutions of recognition withdrawal due to their failure to respond to the notices. 'These colleges did not submit their PARs despite being given a two-times extension and did not reply to show-cause notices. If we find that more TEIs are violating our rules and regulations, we will also take actions against them in the future. We want to ensure quality of education in TEIs in line with National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 provisions,' Rathore told HT. According to the notices issued to non-compliant institutions, the recognitions granted to these institutes have been withdrawn under Section 17 of NCTE Act, 1993 with effect from the academic session 2025-2026. Under Section 17 of the NCTE Act, 1993, a regional committee can withdraw recognition from a teacher education institution for violating the Act or its rules, leading to course discontinuation, canceled affiliations, invalid qualifications for employment, and a ban on admitting students without recognition. India's TEIs are grouped into four regions. According to the data available on NCTE website, with the Northern region having the highest number of derecognised TEIs at 1,225 (41.36% of the total 2,962), followed by the Southern region with 960 (32.41%), the Western region with 748 (25.25%), and the Eastern region with the lowest at 29 (0.98%). Uttar Pradesh dominates the Northern region with 1,059 derecognised TEIs, accounting for 86% of the region's total and over 37% nationally. In the Southern region, Tamil Nadu (361) and Karnataka (224) lead in derecognitions. Maharashtra, with 571 derecognized TEIs, overshadows other Western region states like Gujarat and Rajasthan (63 each). West Bengal leads the Eastern region with 18 derecognised TEIs. Rakesh Mani Tripathi, principal of derecognised Dr Ram Prasanna Maniram Singh Mahavidyalaya, Ayodhya said, 'We have been running the Bachelor of Education (BEd) course since 2002. This is the first time that our college has been recognised by NCTE. We could not fill PAR on time. We are discussing with our academic staff on ways to appeal the NCTE order.' Shad Khan, manager of Choudhary Bashir Khan Mahavidyalaya, Meerut said, 'We have been running BEd course since 2016-17 but NCTE has derecognised our college this year. The management committee of the college is deliberating on the future course of action to appeal against the NCTE order.' According to NCTE, if the institution is not satisfied with this order, it may prefer an appeal under Section 18 of the NCTE Act, 1993 through online mode available on NCTE website within 60 days of the notice date. The section deals with appeals against NCTE orders and allows any aggrieved person to prefer an appeal to the council within a prescribed time limit. 'The aggrieved persons of derecognised TEIs can present their documents in front of the appeal committee functioning under various regional committees of NCTE. The appeal committee will review their documents and take decisions accordingly,' Rathore said. As per the latest data available on NCTE website, India has a total of 20,454 recognised TEIs, with the highest concentration in the Northern Region (8,120 TEIs), followed by the Western Region (4,928), Southern Region (4,757), and Eastern Region (2,649).
Indian Express
26-06-2025
- General
- Indian Express
AP DEECET 2025 Result Declared: Rank cards at apdeecet.apcfss.in
The Andhra Pradesh Diploma in Elementary Education Common Entrance Test (AP DEECET) Cell on June 26 declared the results of AP DEECET and released the rank cards. Candidates who appeared for the exam can access and download the AP DEECET 2025 result rank cards from the official website – The AP DEECET is conducted for admission to the two-year Diploma in Elementary Education ( programme in government and private colleges across Andhra Pradesh. This year, the exam was held on June 2 and June 3. Step 1: Visit the official website of AP DEECET – Step 2: Click on the 'AP DEECET 2025 Results' link on the homepage Step 3: Enter your hall ticket number and date of birth Step 4: Submit the details Step 5: Your rank card will appear on the screen Step 6: Download and take a printout for future reference Step 7: Link to check rank card – AP DEECET 2025 results Candidates qualifying AP DEECET will be required to participate in the counselling process. The admissions into all Government DIETs and Category 'A' seats of the Private Unaided Elementary Teacher Training Institutions shall be made through a Single Window System in the order of merit on the basis of rank assigned in DEECET. All the sanctioned intake of seats in course in the Govt. DIETs and Convener quota (Category-A) in private un-aided Elementary Teacher Education Institutions shall be filled by the Convener DEECET-2025. Such seats shall be allotted to the candidates on the basis of the rank obtained in DEECET-2025. The intake capacity in each institute may change from time to time as decided by NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education).
