Vijayawada: The quality of education in the state is at stake as B.Ed. graduates are not competent enough to tutor CBSE students of Class VI to VIII, as evident by the poor performance of teachers from AP in the CBSE Teachers Eligibility Test (CTET-2014).
The test results reveal the pathetic quality of the institutes they were trained in and the fate of the students they would tutor in the future.
CTET is the eligibility test for recruitment of teachers in schools with NCERT or CBSE syllabus. Central government schools, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navodaya Vidyalaya and other prominent ones in the country follow the CBSE syllabus. All these schools recruit teachers based on their performance in CTET.
CTET has two papers. Those who pass Paper-I are deemed eligible to teach students of Classes I to V. Those who clear Paper-II can teach students of Classes V to VIII.
The CTET 2014 was conducted in last month and the results announced recently.
From AP, 533 D.Ed teachers appeared for Paper-I, of which only 26 qualified. Though 3,874 B.Ed. teachers took the Paper-II, only 54 of passed. This basically means that around 98 per cent of the teachers are not eligible to teach in CBSE/NCERT syllabus schools.
Mr. T. Prabhakar, senior faculty at Prabhas College of Education, Vijayawada said that non-availability of experienced staff in education colleges is the main reason for the poor performance of the candidates.
“The number of education colleges has increased rapidly in the past few years. The non-availability of senior staff in all the colleges affected the teaching standards and quality of education. Also, there is no competitive spirit in the teacher training students. Most of them are afraid of taking a challenge and face NCERT or CBSE syllabus. English language is also a problem for most of them,” he said.
