A comparative study on teacher education in “national policy on education” (npe-1986) and “national education policy” (nep-2019)

Recently Government of India has released an education policy in 2019 named “National Education Policy” to improve the present education system. The present study is undertaken to compare between the recommendations on teacher education in “National Policy on Education” (1986) and the recommendations on teacher education in the draft “National Education Policy” (2019). This is a qualitative study. The objectives of this study are to find out the recommendations related to teacher education both in NPE-1986 and in NEP-2019 and to find out the similarities and dissimilarities between them. The findings of this study are that both NPE-1986 and NEP-2019 has dealt with teacher education and there are similarities in the fields of the development of teacher education, the administrative structure and faculty of the teacher education institutes, four year integrated B.Ed. course, pre-service and in-service teacher education. There are dissimilarities in the field of elementary level teacher education, multidisciplinary teacher education, duties of NCTE, qualification of the faculties, cadre for teacher education.