DIET centres to offer BEd course

The Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training will offer the two-year BEd course from the next academic session at DIET centres in Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Surendranagar and Bhavnagar. The number of seats would be limited to 200 (50 seats at each centre). However, the affiliation to the BEd course at the centres would be given by respective universities in Ahmedabad, Surendranagar and Bhavnagar. For Vadodara centre, the affiliation will be taken from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad.

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If the programme gets a positive response, it would be replicated at other centres, said government sources.

“This is to upgrade DIET centres to higher education level. Also, with greater demand for BEd course as compared to DElEd, this higher degree course will benefit both those pursuing the elementary education diploma course at DIET centres and fresh students wanting to study BEd once they complete their graduation,” said GCERT Director Rajesh Purohit.

Since the course will be begin from June 2016, the four DIET centres will get sufficient time to comply with the NCERT norms and develop infrastructure and faculty. According to a principal of DIET, the application procedure for approval from NCERT would be initiated anytime soon. “This would be followed by visit of the inspection team and the compliance report. This will easily take some six to seven months,” said the DIET principal.