Nirmala Sadan Training College for Special Education, Muvattupuzha

Nirmala Sadan Training College for special education is a special college in Muvattupuzha, Kerala, which trains teachers for special education. Founded in 2003, this college is co-educational, and it has been producing professionals who can satisfactorily handle students with learning disabilities.

Being an accredited member of the relevant governmental and national education bodies, the college has been granted NCTE – National Council for Teacher Education – affiliation. The college admits only 80 students in each batch, targets full-time programmes and offers a wide spectrum of courses related to different phenomena of special education; hence, it is the only college of its kind in the region.

To support the academic experience of the student, the college owns diverse resourceful facilities. A modern library is an information centre that needs to contain essential materials to help in research and learning needs of special education. For the people those who have interest in exercises and leisure, there are sporting complexes for recreation to enhance the proportion between work and play.

With the existing IT facilities, the college fosters student awareness of connectivity, as well as availability of information technology learning tools. There is a university cafeteria which provides food to the students and members of the teaching staff. Auditoriums are useful for holding events and seminars that are essential in sharing knowledge within the area of special education.

For practical learning the college possesses departmental laboratories. The focus on health is given with a health centre for handling first aid facilities, and for those into bodybuilding, there is a gym. These amenities in their entirety foster learning and personal development. NSS Training College has four specialisations in special education, and all the particular courses are full-time.

Their teaching can be grouped under learning disabilities and mental retardation to some extent because the college curriculum is comprehensive enough to offer all types of special education. This means it can only admit one hundred students in each of the courses offered, which explains why each of the courses is given personalised attention. There are two B. Ed.

Special Education programmes of 30 students each: Learning Disability and Mental Retardation. Further, offered is D. Ed. Special Education in Mental Retardation for 30 students and an M. Ed. Special Education in Mental Retardation with an intake capacity of 10 students, enabling the student to study further in this specialisation.

As for the admission policy that is required for any institution admitting students at the college level, the admission criteria employed by the Nirmala Sadan Training College for Special Education allows the college to admit only those candidates who have shown keen interest in special education and who have the ability to succeed in the course of study at the college.