Delhi Govt Launches Teacher University, to Offer Integrated Courses for 12th Pass

Delhi government has launched a Delhi Teacher University (DTU) to offer courses for students to become teachers. “It gives me great pleasure to inaugurate the ‘Delhi Teachers University.’ This is Delhi’s first of its kind university that aims to prepare well-trained and highly qualified teachers. Arvind Kejriwal

the government aims to inspire today’s students to become tomorrow’s teachers,” said Delhi’s deputy chief minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia.

The University will offer a new-age integrated teacher education programme after Class 12. It will also emphasize fundamental and applied research in education by collaborating with national and international organizations, said Sisodia.

Apart from offering BEd, MEd, PhD, and certificate programmes, the university will offer training courses for teachers in-service and those who have graduated and looking to be upskilled. The university will also have national and international collaboration for the exchange of ideas and practice along with partnerships with schools to give hands-on experience.

The Delhi Assembly in January passed a bill for setting up a world-class teachers’ training university. The campus is located in Outram Lane in the Mukherjee Nagar area of the national capital.

Sisodia, who is also the Education Minister of Delhi, further said, “A teacher touches all 360-degree aspects of our life. That’s why it was easier to establish IITs, IIMs, AIIMS but we couldn’t establish a top-level teachers’ university till date.”

“It will also be ensured that trainees spend 30 to 50 per cent of their time in schools and get hands-on learning experience from the very first month of their course. Along with this, a unique cell will also be set up in Delhi Teachers University which will visit schools of Delhi and motivate students to opt for the teaching profession,” he added.

“Today, it is easy to prepare a good engineer, doctor, and other professionals because they work only on specific areas of life but it is not easy to prepare a good teacher because their work is to cover all aspects of life for students and offer a 360-degree approach. This is the reason why IITs were established in the country in 1951, premium institutes like IIMs and AIIMS started decades ago but till date, no teacher university of this level has been started in the country,” the minister reasoned. He said the Delhi Teachers University will work to bridge this gap and “emerge as a brand in the field of teacher education not only in India but all over the world”.

“These days it is common in Indian families that if a child is good at mathematics, then parents encourage them to prepare for IIT, if a child is better in history then they will be asked to prepare for UPSC. But children are never encouraged to become teachers,” Sisodia said.

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