Quality in teacher education: need of an hour

The development of the country rests on the shoulders of teachers because they shape the youth in the classrooms of schools and colleges. Thus the quality of teachers is directly dependent on the quality of teacher education. The challenge of teacher education today is that of building into its structure the capacity for adaptability to the rapidly changing needs of our schools and communities. In order to survive and to be worthy of its name teacher education programmes need revolutionary changes and will have to expand horizontally as well as vertically.