Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP)

Subject – Governance

Context – Dual degree for teacher education

Concept –

The Education Ministry notified a four-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP), offering dualmajor Bachelor’s degrees which will become a mandatory requirement for recruitment of schoolteachers by 2030, according to the National Education Policy (NEP).
As a pilot project in 2022-23, the integrated programme will initially be offered in 50 selected multidisciplinary institutions.
Admissions into the programme will be carried out by the National Testing Agency through the National Common Entrance Test (NET).
The curriculum, which has been designed by the National Council for Teacher Education, will enable student-teachers to get a degree in education and in a specialised discipline such as history, mathematics, science, arts, economics, or commerce. Students will walk out of the programme with a B.Ed. and a BA, B.Sc. or B.Com.