Since 1996 Tribhuvan Unviersity (TU) has been implementing three-year Bachelor programmes with annual examination system in Faculties of Education, Management and Humanities and Social Sciences and Institute of Science and Technology. Recently, duration of Bachelor programmes in those faculties and institute has been made four years by adding one more year. In conformity with this, Faculty of Education (FoE) is going to introduce four-year Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) with two specialization subject areas (specialization major and specialization minor subject) in 2072 BS instead of offering single specialization area like in three-year B.Ed. Accordingly, students of four-year B.Ed. programme will have to study one subject area as specialization major and the next as specialization minor area selecting from among Nepali Education, English Education, Mathematics Education, Science Education (physical science), Health and Physical Education, Population Education, History Education, Geography Education, Economics Education, and Political Science Education. Students may also study one of the courses from among Science Education (Biological Science), Health Education, Physical Education, vocational education, Primary Education, Early Childhood Development Education, Non-formal Education and Education Management as specialization minor. Four-year B.Ed. with annual examination system is a professional as well as academic programme designed for preparing competent teachers who can teach two subjects at secondary level
Each student must pass 22 courses to earn Four-Year B.Ed.. These courses are divided into four major groups ˗ group 'A' with Communication Skills; group 'B' with Professional Cores Areas; group 'C' with Specialization Major Courses and group 'D' with Specialization Minor Courses. Group 'E' includes Teaching Practice/Practicum. The details of course structure is given in Table 1.
Group of Courses | No. of Courses | Full Marks | First Year | Second Year | Third Year | Fourth Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group A: Communication skills | 2 | 200 | 200 | |||
Group B: Professional Core Areas | 4 | 400 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100(elective) |
Group C: Specialization Major | 10 | 1000 | 200 | 300 | 300 | 200 |
Group D: Specialization Minor | 5 | 500 | 100 | 200 | 100 | 100 |
Group E: Teaching Internship/Practicum | 1 | 100 | 100 | |||
Total | 22 | 2200 | 600 | 600 | 500 | 500 |
Course titles under each group are given below:
All courses under this group are compulsory.
Ed. 442 Instructional Technology
or
Ed.443 ICT in Education
or
Ed. 444 ICT in Specialized subject
Students are required to select one of the following specialization areas with 10 courses in each area considering entry requirement.
Students are required to select one of the following specialization areas with 5 courses. But it should be different from specialization major. For example, a student majoring Nepali cannot select Nepali as minor. Specially, student majoring Science Education (Physical Science) must select biology as minor subject.
Students with Higher Secondary Education Examination Pass Certificate (HSEEPC, hereafter
only HSE) or Proficiency Certificate Level of Tribhuvan University (PCL) or equivalent to
HSE/grade 12 pass are eligible for the admission in B.Ed programme. In addition, they need
other requirements for the admission in different major subject specialization areas which are
as follows:
1. Nepali Education