As per the latest announcement by the Human Resource and Development Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Bachelors in Education (B.Ed) has been remodeled into an integrated 4-year program from this year for the betterment of teaching and training quality. New 4 year B.Ed course has been devised and its syllabus is finalised as well. Institutions can introduce BA+B.Ed, B.Sc+B.Ed and B.Com+B.Ed courses from this academic session itself. Read About UP B.Ed JEE 2020

“All preparations for introducing the four year integrated B.Ed course have been done and a notification has been issued. The course will start from this session (2020-21) itself” said the minister in Rajya Sabha. 

Integrated 4 year B.Ed will be available in three streams which are BA, B.Com and B.Sc. The step is taken in the wake of making teaching profession a priority and a well planned career rather than a last resort.

Having students to take admission into the program right after their class 12 board examination and increasing the course duration from two years to four years makes it an exclusive teaching profession rather than a last resort.

Prakash Javadekar, former HRD minister had announced this change while addressing principals of Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in a conference on February 7, 2020. Later, referring to the announcement, he tweeted “Teaching should become a profession of choice but not a profession of leftover that is why we are introducing 4-year integrated B.Ed course in the coming academic year”  Read About CTET 2020

In the beginning of year 2018 the government had clued about swapping up of 2-year B.Ed program with the four year integrated B.Ed program. Soon after, in the Budget 2018 speech on February 1, Arun Jaitely, the Finance Minister of India, had made statements confirming the dropping of 2-year B.Ed program in favor of the upcoming integrated 4-year B.Ed course.