How RCE has Changed over the years?

Hi sanjana!

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I would like to inform you about RCE. In 1982, a Task Force was set up by the Government of India under Dr (Smt) Madhuri Saha, the then UGC Chairperson to critically assess the role, organizational structure, and functions of NCERT. One of the recommendations of the Task Force was to develop the Regional Colleges of Education into Regional Centres of NCERT. After the Government accepted the recommendations of the Task Force in June 1985, the NCERT set up, in June 1986, a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. R. C. Das to consider in detail the above named specific recommendation of converting RCEs into Regional Centres. The R. C. Das Committee submitted its report in January 1987 one of whose major recommendations was to “rename the Regional Colleges of Education into Regional Institutes of Education instead of Regional Centres as the Institutions will be conducting various pre-service and in-service teacher education courses leading to degree/diploma of a University” (NCERT, 1987, p. 58). The report was accordingly titled, Transformation of Regional Colleges of Education into Regional Institutes of Education of NCERT. This recommendation, however, was not implemented immediately. In the mean time, several significant developments took place in the domain of school education and teacher education, such as the implementation of the National Policy on Education 1986, the emergence of the National Council of Teacher Education as a Statutory Body in 1993, and launching of the centrally sponsored District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in 1994. Accordingly, some changes were envisaged in the functioning of NCERT and its constituent units. The Regional Colleges of Education were renamed as Regional Institutes of Education with effect from 18th April 1995 with discontinuation of some pre-service courses such as the four-year B. A. B. Ed. and two-year M. Sc. Ed. courses. The new name is still in use.

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