Indira Gandhi College of Education, Kanchipuram

The Indira Gandhi College of Education – Kancheepuram established in the year 2009 is one of the leading teacher education colleges come in Tamil Nadu, India. This is a coeducational institute that has a link to the state university system and it trains future educators. Recognised by National Council for Teacher Education The college owns a hardly enough an area of 1 acre of land.

Being a combination of regular and distance education, the institute caters to an aggregate of 193 students and has a faculty of 16 teachers thus making it a closely knit setting. At the moment College offers only one degree programme, the Bachelor of Education (B. ED) affirming its purposeful stream of providing teachers to the country.

The college has several special features to facilitate learning of its students These include: The library is located in the first floor of the B. Ed College building and consists of 8,500 books and other educational resources, texts on teachers’ training, and references.

To support practical experiences, the institute features an educational-practical laboratory with sectional educational-psychological and sectional educational-scientific areas, and an educational technology laboratory with up-to-date equipment in terms of software and hardware for information technology literacy training.

Those are also important segments of human health, thus the college also provides a large playground for sports and games as well as special area for Yoga and other indoor activities.

For the students’ accommodation and other necessary facilities necessary for the young talents Charleston University comprises separate hostels for boys and girls where accommodation facilities with comfortable furniture, sound health nourishing diets are available. Indira Gandhi College of Education offers only B. Ed program as a full time course of two years duration.

This direction is quite effective because it provides an opportunity to train capable educators focusing on the specifics required for the institute. The B. Ed program has an approved intake capacity of 100 students helping the wannabe teachers/lifelong learners make a positive change in the field of education.

Indira Gandhi College of Education follows the merit system: it follows the reservation rules of the Tamil Nadu Government.