Galaxy College of Education, Jammu

Galaxy College of Education was established in 2004 present in Jammu which comes under Jammu and Kashmir, affiliated college in India. Located in Sainik Colony for boys and girls, this co-educational institution occupies 1. 08 acres of land. The college mainly concentrates on the preparation of teachers; it provides a Bachelors of Education or B. Ed program.

This college admits 112 students at a time and has a faculty of 8 thereby providing a splendid teaching environment for education majors. The institute has strived for quality output in the provider of education in the area of teacher training and career placement. The college has various facilities that are engraved with an aim of promoting the learning status of the students.

The library plays the roles of both learning resource center offering vast book, CDs, course materials, reference books and encyclopedia, journals and periodicals. It also has reprographic services and book bank facility. Accommodation: The college boasts of adequate and well equipped computer laboratories to enable the students’ gain adequate technological skills.

For accommodation, the university has two hostels for boys and two hostels for girls with a totaling of 180 boarding students. These hostels provide every aspect of the students’ daily lives that can enhance their performance in their studies besides offering the provision of independence and safety.

It also has an auditorium for organizing functions and seminars, cafeteria for feeding the students quality and healthy food and a health center with first aid services. Galaxy College of Education offers only its B. Ed program, which is a two-year B. Ed with full time learning only. This specialized approach makes it easier for the institute to focus all its efforts on the development of teachers.

The capacity for the B. Ed program is 112 and this reflects the colleges total enrollment challenging but dedicated approach for training teachers. Admission into B. Ed program in Galaxy College of Education is done through centralized counselling by the University of Jammu. This process is applicable for all the B. Ed colleges affiliated to this university across the region except management seats.

In the case of management seats too, there are certain conditions by which a student is admitted to a certain course or institution so as to maintain the quality of the students to be accepted. Candidates who are interested in joining this university should regularly check this University of Jammu’s notice board or website in order to know the exact dates of admission and counselling.

Also, aims and objectives of Galaxy College of Education also act in a way that puts into account the students’ all-round welfare. The institute also conducts Annual Games and sports meet where it conducts indoor games and outdoor games such as badminton, chess, race, kabaddi, shot put, volley ball etc are conducted on the campus.

The students can represent the college in such recognized competitions as those conducted by the University of Jammu and other related bodies. Another point is that due to large traffic the college provides students and workers with the opportunity to receive transportation by using a car pool which is connected to the main regions of the city.

Due to its specialised concentration on teacher training and the facilities provided to the student populace, Galaxy College of Education, Jammu aims at producing highly professional, capable and responsible teachers for the future education sector.