TET Validity: Teacher eligibility certificates to be valid for lifetime
Aspirants writing Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) from now will be issued certificates valid for lifetime, instead of ones valid for seven years.
Representative imageCHENNAI: Aspirants writing Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) from now will be issued certificates valid for lifetime, instead of ones valid for seven years.
"This provision would have prospective effect and for those who already have a TET certificate, NCTE would take a legal opinion and will act accordingly," a resolution passed at the general body meeting of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) said. NCTE has released the minutes of the meeting held on September 28.
In Tamil Nadu, the validity of 80,000 TET qualified teachers is set to expire in six months and they have been demanding the state government to take steps to extend the validity in view of the pandemic.
"More than 1.3 lakh candidates qualified in the past five TET exams conducted by Teachers Recruitment Board and around one lakh are yet to get jobs. The seven-year validity was not correct as other qualifying tests such as UGC-NET are valid for a lifetime," said M Elangovan, state-coordinator, 2013 TNTET Qualified Welfare Association. In 2013, 75,000 candidates qualified in TET, which remains the highest so far.
Demanding the Centre and state government to make certificates of candidates who have already cleared TET valid for lifetime, he added that the lifetime validity will be meaningful only if Tamil Nadu government relaxed the age limit - 40 years for OC and 45 years for other categories - for recruiting teachers. "In the past six years, there has been no recruitment of secondary grade teachers and by fixing an age limit, they eliminate a large number of qualified candidates. So the state government should withdraw the government order," he said.
Tamil Nadu Teachers Association president P K Ilamaran said the move would guarantee livelihood for teachers and urged NCTE to offer lifetime validity for candidates who already have certificates.
"This provision would have prospective effect and for those who already have a TET certificate, NCTE would take a legal opinion and will act accordingly," a resolution passed at the general body meeting of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) said. NCTE has released the minutes of the meeting held on September 28.
In Tamil Nadu, the validity of 80,000 TET qualified teachers is set to expire in six months and they have been demanding the state government to take steps to extend the validity in view of the pandemic.
"More than 1.3 lakh candidates qualified in the past five TET exams conducted by Teachers Recruitment Board and around one lakh are yet to get jobs. The seven-year validity was not correct as other qualifying tests such as UGC-NET are valid for a lifetime," said M Elangovan, state-coordinator, 2013 TNTET Qualified Welfare Association. In 2013, 75,000 candidates qualified in TET, which remains the highest so far.
Demanding the Centre and state government to make certificates of candidates who have already cleared TET valid for lifetime, he added that the lifetime validity will be meaningful only if Tamil Nadu government relaxed the age limit - 40 years for OC and 45 years for other categories - for recruiting teachers. "In the past six years, there has been no recruitment of secondary grade teachers and by fixing an age limit, they eliminate a large number of qualified candidates. So the state government should withdraw the government order," he said.
Tamil Nadu Teachers Association president P K Ilamaran said the move would guarantee livelihood for teachers and urged NCTE to offer lifetime validity for candidates who already have certificates.
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