<h1 class="ql-align-center">Integrated Teacher Education Programme</h1><h2> </h2><h2>Context:</h2> <ul><li>The Ministry of Education has notified a Four Year&nbsp;Integrated Teacher Education Programme&nbsp;(ITEP). This fulfills one of the&nbsp;major mandates of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020&nbsp;related to Teacher Education.</li></ul> <h2>About:</h2> <ul><li>The Education Ministry notified a four-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP), offering dual-major Bachelor’s degrees which will become a mandatory requirement for recruitment of school teachers by 2030, according to the National Education Policy (NEP)</li></ul> <ul><li>This integrated course will benefit students since they will save one year by finishing it in four years rather than the customary five years required by the present B.Ed. plan.</li></ul> <ul><li>This course will be&nbsp;available for all students who want to choose teaching as a profession after clearing secondary school.</li></ul> <ul><li>The&nbsp;National Council for Teacher Education&nbsp;(NCTE) has created the curriculum of this course to enable&nbsp;a student-teacher to get a degree in education as well as a specialised discipline such as history, mathematics, science, arts, economics, or commerce.</li></ul> <ul><li>Admissions to the programme will be carried out by the National Testing Agency through the National Common Entrance Test (NET).</li></ul> <ul><li>As a pilot project in 2022-23, the programme will initially be offered in 50 selected multi-disciplinary institutions </li></ul>