Haryana govt to set up 'Prarambh' school for teacher education

To make Haryana a preferred destination for school education, the state government has decided to set up 'Prarambh' a first-of-its kind school for teachers to help them develop their professional skills.
"The programme is a giant step towards the fulfilment of the vision of the education department to bring best quality teachers to the 47 lakh-odd students in the state," an official spokesman said.
"Prarambh will seek to address the quality issue in elementary and secondary teacher education with built-in mechanisms for innovation. It will be an autonomous institution having collaborations with national and international agencies of repute," he added.

It will have its dedicated 10-acre campus in Jhajjar, just 50-km away from Gurgaon, the spokesman said.
"A four-year integrated Bachelor of Education Programme is the first offering from the Prarambh School of Teacher Education," he said.
The programme will cover the academic content from degree to post-graduation level. This would be a residential programme on the lines of the other top-notch undergraduate programmes, including engineering and medicine courses in the best of institutions in the country, the spokesman said.
He said that a high-powered committee under the chairmanship of Surina Rajan, Surina Rajan, Department of School Education has been constituted for creating curriculum for this programme.