TURA: The Don Bosco College of Teacher Education in Tura (DB-CTE) has literally swept this year’s Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) results by walking away with eight top positions of the state following the declaration of results by the North Eastern Hill University.
Out of the top 10 positions in the B.Ed exams of the university, Don Bosco College of Teacher Education, Tura, walked away with eight positions including the first rank which was bagged by Ritu Sarkar.
In the university (NEHU), out of a total of 342 who appeared the B.Ed examinations from the four B.Ed colleges in the state, 304 came out successful with a pass percentage of 88.89%. A total of 190 students secured First Division, 102 in the 2nd Division and 12 managed a Simple Pass.
For DB-CTE, which had been consistently securing good results in the B.Ed examinations over the past years, it was once again a 100 per cent pass percentage for its students.
Out of the 103 students of the college who appeared the B.Ed exams, 82 were placed in First Division, 20 in Second Division, and one in Third Division. The college also secured 37 distinctions.
Interestingly, Don Bosco College of Teacher Education, Tura, happens to be the only college, out of four institutions that provide B.Ed training in Meghalaya, which has opted for having two Units for B.Ed in the semester system, thus admitting a total of 100 students.
The college, which faces an annual funds crunch having not received government or UGC funding, has decided to continue with the two unit system so that more students are benefitted from the training.
The other colleges follow a single unit of admitting only fifty students annually.
Considering the fact that there are more than 3500 untrained teachers in the secondary level alone in Meghalaya, the state government has knocked on the doors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for funds to train the untrained teachers.
But given that the institutions are taking in only fifty students annually for the B.Ed course it will remain a gigantic task to bridge the gap between trained and untrained teachers.
