Is it curtains for colleges of education?

NEP 2020 lays emphasis on a four-year integrated B.Ed. programme

Against the backdrop of drastic drop in admissions, and implications of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 that lays emphasis on a four-year integrated B.Ed. programme, a number of colleges of education are staring at the eventuality of fading away into oblivion over the next few years. Due to the perceptible inertia in recent years, many colleges in the central region, in fact, have not been able to furnish the names of the principals to the Tamil Nadu Teacher Education University (TNTEU), according to sources. In a letter to the colleges, the TNTEU had, during March, instructed them to provide a status report on the principals who continue to hold the post.