Delhi Teachers’ University Bill 2022 tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Monday.
“Delhi Teachers’ University will set new standards of teacher education in India. It will focus on preparing quality teachers through world-class exposure,” said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia while presenting the bill in the assembly.
“Education is the basic need for the country's progress. Following the mantra of 'Sikshak ke Dum pe Siksha, Siksha ke Dum par Desh’ (Education on the basis of Teacher and Country on the basis of Education), In the past seven years, many historic decisions have been taken for setting up the Delhi education model. The Delhi Government has been providing 25% of its annual budget to education every year. No state government in India does that. As a result, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government was able to create a sustainable Delhi education model, where students of Government schools are able to equally compete for IITs, IIMs and best medical colleges with students from private schools,” said Sisodia who hold the portfolio of Education Minister in AAP government.
Mentioning the need of Teachers University in Delhi, in present times Sisodia said, Teachers are the real changemakers in the evolving Delhi education model. We gave global exposure to our teachers by sending them to international universities and they completely changed the education system in Delhi government schools. Now there is a need to prepare a force of teachers who can provide quality education of international standards to our students. Delhi Teachers’ University will focus on preparing teachers of such standard. It will not be just a B.Ed. or any other teacher education institution. It will set new standards in the field of teacher education, like IIMs have set standards for management education, IITs for engineering education and AIIMS for medical education.
He further said that education and teachers have played an important role in the development of developed countries of the world. Today the education model of Finland is discussed all over the world. Finland abolished the posts of inspector from its schools and worked on teachers training there and today Finland is at the top in terms of quality education.”
He added that the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore inspires the most talented youth of the country to become teachers, whereas in Japan, the post of teacher gets more respect than a civil servant.
Public school teachers in Japan have been given the status of “civil servant”, equal to that of an IAS officer in the Indian system.