PANAJI
The Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandal’s Dr Dada Vaidya College of Education, Farmagudi, has received permission from the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to start a Masters in Education (MEd) programme, which will be the only programme of its kind in the State.
The NCTE took the decision to give GVM College permission to start the MEd programme at the Western Region Council meeting held recently.
The college has been given permission to open one division i.e. a minimum of around 15 to 20 students, and a maximum of 50 students will be able to study for their degrees. This is a two year full-time course that will be open to students who have completed their BEd degrees.
Speaking to The Goan, Principal of the college, Dr Allan Abreo, explained the need for a programme of this kind in the State. “There was a need for an MEd programme since this is an eligibility criteria to teach methodology subjects in BEd,” he explained, while pointing out that there were five colleges in the state offering a Bachelor’s in Education (BEd), and four which offered Diploma in Elementary Education (D El Ed.). All these colleges needed instructors with an MEd qualification for certain papers, Abreo added.
The programme will be a grant-in-aid programme, which means that funds would come from the government. This is not the first time that an institution in Goa will run an MEd programme. Nirmala Institute of Education used to offer an MEd, a one year full-time or part-time course for several years, before the course was closed over a decade ago.
The MEd offered by GVM’s College of Education will be of two-years duration as per the rules of the NCTE which extended the duration of both the Bachelors and Masters degree in Education since 2014.
