Professional Training for Technical Teachers

In this paper, it has been pointed out that anyhow the professional training for teachers involved in higher education has been overlooked. With spread of higher education, now we are realising that teachers training like any other pre-service training for several jobs including IAS, IPS, IOF, etc., need to be introduced without any further delay. The areas for technical teachers' training have been identified and 3 training modules of total 50 weeks duration have been proposed. It is further advocated that the entry point for teaching and administrative jobs in Technical Education Department should be the lecturer cadre with compulsory pre-service professional training of 50 weeks. It is expected that the bodies, like, AICTE, MHRD, etc., shall take appropriate moves to help maintain the quality of technical teachers through such programmes.