Around 100 staff in Calicut University Teacher Education Centres (CUTEC), including principals and teachers, are relieved after the university Syndicate recently decided not to terminate their services in line with the recommendations of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE).
These people have been working in the 11 centres that function directly under the University of Calicut, spread across five districts. The centres are in the self-financing mode and the staff are appointed on one-year contract, renewed every year.
According to the NCTE Regulations, 2014, the principals should have PhDs and the teachers should have M.Ed and clear the University Grants Commission’s National Eligibility Test. The NCTE cancelled the recognition of CUTECs citing issues such as the lack of qualification of principals, last year. The university was earlier supposed to meet all the requirements and file a report to the NCTE by January 29. The date was later extended to March 15.
