First Karnataka Teachers' Eligibility Test in May or June
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Aspiring primary school teachers will have to make themselves eligible for government teaching jobs by writing the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET), which will be conducted for the first time in the State in the last week of May or first week of June.
The Common Admission Cell (CAC) of the Department of Public Instruction has been asked to conduct the first ever KARTET, as it will be called, tentatively on May 25. At present, to teach Classes 1-8, a basic qualification of pre-university (or degree) and Diploma in Education (or Bachelor of Education) serves as eligibility to take part in recruitment.
The decision to conduct the test comes amidst mounting pressure by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), which made TET qualification compulsory for teachers before recruitment as primary teachers (Classes 1-8) way back in August 2010 in line with the implementation of the Right to Education Act.
“More than 20 states are conducting their own TETs. In all future recruitment, it will become mandatory for teachers to first write the TET and secure more than 60 per cent marks (55 per cent for reservation categories) in order to become eligible to apply for teaching jobs. A notification will be issued on April 18,” an official from CAC told Express.
“We have to do it now as the Government of India wants it done not only for government recruitment, but also for hiring of teachers in unaided schools,” said Commissioner for Public Instruction Mohammed Mohsin. NCTE says TET should become a minimum qualification as “it would bring national standards and benchmark of teacher quality in the recruitment process.”
While in-service teachers will not be required to clear the TET, it will apply for more than 2.17 lakh persons who applied for primary teachers recruitment that was notified in 2012-13 and stalled due to the implementation of the Hyderabad-Karnataka quota.
“These applicants will be informed to take the TET. Only those who score 60 per cent or more can take part in the subsequent recruitment process. Those who fail to clear it will have their application fees refunded,” the official said.
Officials expect around 3 lakh candidates to take the first TET as all DEd and BEd holders will have to take it. The TET scores will be valid for seven years and candidates can take the test any number times.
The test will be held in Kannada and English for a duration of two-and-a-half hours once every year. It consists of Paper-1 for those wanting to teach Classes 1-5 and Paper-2 for Classes 6-8. There are five papers carrying 30 marks each with 150 multiple-choice questions-two languages, mathematics, science and social sciences
News Source : newindianexpress.com (14th April 2014 )
