To streamline the irregular session of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) course, the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna (HNB) Garhwal University has decided to do away with the summer vacations this year. To bring the irregular session of B.Ed course of the university into order, a meeting on the order of Vice Chancellor (VC), was held at Dehradun based camp office of university recently . The meeting was chaired by Dean education, Usha Dhulia. Informing about the decision taken in the meeting, the President of the association of self financed institutes of Uttarakhand, Sunil Agarwal said that the university has decided that the B.Ed. session 2015-17 would be completed on time; the session 2016-2018 would be brought on track while the session of 2017- 2019 would start on time. In the meeting the Principals of all affiliated colleges of the university participated. He further informed that in the meeting it was decided that this year the summer vacations in the B.Ed colleges would be canceled so that regular classes are held in months of May and June. This step in being taken to ensure that the necessary number of classes as per the requirement of National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) is completed till September and the students are able to give final examinations in the month of October.
Similarly the classes of the students of session 2016-18 would continue in May and June so that the examination of this session too is held on time. The Principals of the colleges requested the university that the scheme of the entrance examination should be declared in the month of May so that the process of entrance is completed by month of June and the classes are started in month of July. The dean education said that the VC of the university is very serious to bring the B.Ed course of the university on track and the understanding reached in the meeting would be brought before him for necessary clearance.
There are 46 Private colleges, eight self financed Government colleges and seven Government colleges which are offering B Ed courses under the HNB Garhwal University.
It is worth mentioning here that the two year B.Ed course started from 2015, this session got derailed due to some problems faced in implementing new syllabus.