The Osmania University (OU) will establish a school of education in March where over 5,000 teacher educators and secondary school in-service teachers will be trained over the next two years. The school is being set up under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) sponsored Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission for Teachers Training scheme.
The school will have two centres – Centre for pre-service Teachers and Professional Development of Teacher Educators and Centre for Curriculum and Educational Development. “The School of Education will be on par with those in Central universities where we will be launching certificate courses, exchange programmes to train teacher educators. We will also be extending
research in education sector,” said Prof T Mrunalini, dean, faculty of education at OU.
The school is expected to bring about changes in pedagogy and research through intensive training programmes. It will be enhancing curriculum, preparing e-modules for teacher education and have pedagogical interventions to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship in this sector. “Teachers teaching bachelor of education and master of education courses in five state universities do not have sufficient exposure in terms of training. The school will be extending support to teachers of Palamuru University, Telangana University, Mahatma Gandhi University among others,” said Prof Mrunalini.