EVALUATION OF TWO-YEAR B.ED. PROGRAM: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

The following study focuses on knowing the student teachers‘perspective regarding the two-year B.Ed. program as prescribed by National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE). The major findings ofthe study revealed that the students' find the two-year B.Ed. program to be very good with respect to the depth of the course and its applicability to real life situations. But at the same time 50% of the students' feel that the two-year program is difficult and more time consuming in comparison to the one year B.Ed. program.