Chennai: Madras high court Wednesday pointed out that the standard of teachers is so poor that many students studying in fifth standard are unable to write their names.
“Standard and calibre of many teachers in Tamil Nadu are very low and they are incapable to teach students properly taking the education level to rock bottom and the students are unable to compete with students from other states. It is due to ‘Commercialisation of Education’, ” said the Madras High Court.
Justice N. Kirubakaran made the above observations while ordering notice to the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), state government and two others on a petition from SVI College of Education, which challenged the show cause notice issued by the NCTE, in and by which, the NCTE had stated that the petitioner institution cannot ask to increase the intake of students in B.Ed as well as M.Ed courses.
“It is a fact that NCTE, without any man power policy, indiscriminately and mechanically is approving and granting permission to start Teacher Training Institutions offering B.Ed, M.Ed courses and diplomas throughout India and there is a mushroom growth of educational institutions and without even infrastructures, approvals are granted. It is a bitter reality that even the state government is not bothered about large number of institutions which are being permitted by NCTE,” the judge added.
Pointing out that in the interest of public, certain queries have to be raised to streamline the Teacher Education Institutions and also to see that the graduates who were coming out of the Institutions were appropriately employed, the judge suo motu impleaded the state government, Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University and the Director of Employment and Training and posed 10 queries to be answered by them by March 27.
