CRISIS OF TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN WEST BENGAL DURING 2006: A CASE STUDY

Quality generally signifies the degree of excellence. In the educational context, quality is seen as a complex issue as education is concerned with human. With basic infrastructural facilities, development of necessary skills, values and attitudes of the trainees are desired as maximum output of how effectively the process of training is organized. Various agencies like NCTE, NAAC are established to assess and accredit the institutions and to improve the quality of education. The number of teacher education institutions were increasing in those days at a very fast rate due to privatization and liberalization of teacher education. Though the expansion had happened at large and rapid scale, maximum institutions were not duly recognized by NCTE. So, the crisis was exposed in front of Calcutta High Court. And the crisis was acute due to its multifoliate reasons. After going through a long battle and tensions between the then West Bengal government and Central government, a feasible solution had come out through the amendment of Parliament.