Bhagabati Devi Primary Teachers Training Institute, Medinipur

The Gurrupataka Bhagabati Devi Primary Teachers Training Institute is situated at Medinipur, West Bengal and is one of the best Teacher Education Institutions in India. This college for both male and female students was started in 2003 and has been preparing future educators for the past 18 years. The institute is recognized by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to support its courses’ quality.

With a total area 1. 04 acres the institute is designed to provide the best academic environment for the 300 students enrolled here. It has a faculty composition of 28, and therefore the institute has a proper student faculty ratio so as to ensure adequate time to be given to the students and quality education is provided.

Bhagabati Devi Primary Teachers Training Institute, Medinipur is affiliated College of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University, Kolkata. It has the responsibility of offering a number of amenities that could avail the learning milieu of students of this institute. The campus has separate hostels for boys and girls which are located in instructions with serene environment that is suitable for studies.

Knowledge resources centre in the form of a good library is an important resource; skill development centres are the departmental laboratories. Sports facilities and a health center providing first aid are also available in college for overall development of students. To meet the needs of the new millennium in education, the institute has developed the best of IT facilities.

There are modules that provide meal services to students and employees of the institute, and one of the guest rooms specifically for the visiting teachers and families with children. Bhagabati Devi Primary Teachers Training Institute provides two Bachelor of Education programmes , which are complete tenure courses and exclusive for different categories of trainers.

Programs offered at this institute of learning are: Bachelor of Education – B. Ed and Diploma in Elementary Education – D. El. Ed courses that enable a student to have appropriate knowledge and skills in taking up a teaching profession. The B. Ed program offers 50 intakes and D. El. Ed program offers 100 intakes making the student intakes 150 for both courses.

These programs take two years each and offer a good base in education theory along with practice. Degree Name Total Number of Seats D. El. Ed 100 B. Ed 50 The entry into the Bhagabati Devi Primary Teachers Training Institute admits students who possess potentiality in the area of education. Admission of the B.

Ed program occurs by the merit list of the students on the percentage the students have scored in their qualifying examination along with the performance in the entrance examination or any other procedure which is followed as per the norms of state government and university rules. Like the other PG and UG programs, the D. El.

Ed program admission is also on the merit basis where into the candidate’s performance in the qualifying examination/entrance examination is given preference as per the norms of the state government/UT administration.