Hope the post is relevant for understanding briefly the teacher education scenario in Maharashtra. 

Teacher education in the state of Maharashtra caters to the need for teachers from the pre-primary level to the higher secondary level. The state has taken great strides in the field of teacher education with colleges and universities conducting a variety of teacher education programmes. All these programmes are run as per the norms and standards laid down by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), the apex body in the field of teacher education.

The Director of Education (Higher Education), Maharashtra State, Pune is the sole authority to look after admissions to the B.Ed. programmes. Admissions for the B.Ed. programme in the state of Maharashtra are centralized. There is a Common Entrance Test (CET). 

In this centralized B.Ed admission procedure, 70% of the seats are reserved for graduates of home University, 28% for graduates of University in Maharashtra excluding home University and 2% for graduates of University, outside the state of Maharashtra.    

Till the academic year 2014-15, B.Ed. was a one-year programme and the college had an intake capacity of 100 students for B.Ed. Since then, the NCTE has revised the duration of B.Ed. and M.Ed. Programme to two years and introduced a credit-based semester and grading system. Individual syllabi are framed and prescribed by the affiliating Universities based on the revised curriculum guidelines provided by NCTE. In the B.Ed. Programme, new courses like Reading and reflecting on Texts, Drama and Art in Education, Understanding the Self, Childhood & Growing Up have been introduced. The faculty are challenged to gear up for transacting these new courses. Examinations are conducted and certification is done by the affiliating Universities.

Teacher educators at the B.Ed level in the State require a Masters of Education degree. They also need to clear the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) or the State Eligibility Test (SET) for Lectureship which is conducted by University of Pune.

The academic and administrative governance of teacher education programmes in Maharashtra is a collective responsibility of various regulatory bodies.

(Reference: http://images.indianexpress.com/2015/04/students-l1.jpg )

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