Sri Venkateswara College of Education, Guntur

Sri Venkateswara College of Education for teacher education is situated in Kollipara, Guntur, which is a well-recognised college to build the future of education. This co-educational college was founded in 2007 and has had the exclusive goal of training future educators for more than ten years.

The college occupies a small area of only a 2-acre campus, and till date it has a strength of 430 students enrolled in the college. Like other affiliated colleges, it falls under the umbrella of a university that guarantees the achievement of high academic status.

The college is proud to be approved by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE); this is an indication of the college's commitment to offering quality teacher education. Sri Venkateswara College of Education, Kollipara, Guntur is affiliated with the university Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur.

The college has acquired a number of facilities with the aim of improving the learning experience of the students of the college. At the centre of these is a library, the stock of which ought to be helpful for future teachers. Sri Venkateswara College of Education also comprises a department-based lab where students get the practical sessions vital to training teachers.

To assure an understanding of the role played by technology in the current society as well as education particularly, Sri Venkateswara College of Education boasts of quality IT facilities. To meet the needs of such individuals, societal recreational facilities, that is, sports facilities, are available for the improvement of the body as well as the mind through achieving academic success in college.

It also provides accommodation for the female students in the college by providing the girls’ hostel place for those students who are in distant places. Equipped classrooms and the Training and Placement Cell complete the couple of amenities required for both academic and professional growth of the learners. Sri Venkateswara College of Education offers one primary course, the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.

) programme. This is a two-year full course intended for students aspiring to become teachers in the future. The college has been approved for a total of 100 students for this programme which shows that the college is selective in the training of teachers.

At present, the college only has a one-degree programme which can be said to be a quality-to-quantity approach, as the college ensures that it provides adequate time and resources to train each of their students in the course that they want to pursue.