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The Democratic Teachers Federation (DTF), Telangana, urged the State authorities to fortify the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) arsenic a research-driven apex world institution, saying its effectiveness is straight tied to the prime of schoolhouse acquisition successful the State.
In a elaborate practice submitted to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao and Secretary (Education) Yogita Rana, the federation laid retired a bid of proposals aimed astatine overhauling SCERT’s relation and functioning.
In its memorandum, the DTF called for a revision of eligibility norms for the station of SCERT Director, noting that the presumption is presently held by officers with lone a bachelor’s grade and B.Ed qualification. The federation demanded that aboriginal directors person robust world credentials, including a PhD, a proven probe inheritance and important pedagogical experience, to supply credible enactment to elder academicians.
DTF besides projected that SCERT beryllium transformed into a research-oriented, university-like institution. Highlighting a captious shortage of module crossed teacher acquisition institutions, DTF pointed retired that much than 95% of posts successful SCERT, District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs), Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs) and Institutes of Advanced Studies successful Education (IASEs) stay vacant, and called for urgent recruitment of imperishable faculty.
The federation further urged the constitution of a imperishable 100-acre SCERT field with world blocks, hostels and integer facilities, and recommended that SCERT relation arsenic a continuous nonrecreational improvement centre for teachers.
