New Delhi, March 23 The Ministry of Education ruled out restoring the duration of the Bachelor of Education (BEd) programme to one year on Monday.
Union Minister of State for Education Jayant Chaudhary shared this information in response to a written question in the Lok Sabha.
"According to information received from the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), the statutory authority responsible for setting standards and norms for teacher education programmes in the country, there is currently no proposal to restore the duration of the BEd programme to one year," the minister said.
The NCTE had announced last year that it was considering resuming the one-year Bachelor of Education course, over a decade after it was discontinued in 2014, to align with the recommendations of the new National Education Policy (NEP).