Ekashila College of Education, Warangal: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Ekashila College of Education Warangal was established in 1984 and this college provides courses in teacher education. It is a co-educational college for boys and girls located in Jangaon, Telangana and it is approved by National Council for Teachers Education(NCTE), affiliated colleges. Located in a sprawling 12 acres land, Ekashila College of Education has three regular programmes of education viz B.Ed, M.Ed and D.El.Ed. The college has an intake capacity of 100 students and 8 faculties which helps in offering concentrated preparation for the trainees. This is well captured in their course calendar and professional development training that it offers to cater for the quality education as a premier institute of learning.

The college has a number of amenities to encourage the students’ academic success and development. The library being an essentials aspect of learning carries 9501 books and sups 24 journals every year. It also has a Book Bank corner – the students can take books from it for the whole term at Alma mater. It has well equipped laboratories, an event and seminar hall and an optimum provision for computer and internet facilities in the college for means of e-learning. For physical development, the campus holds a playground to accommodate different games like soccer, basketball, handball, volleyball and others like cricket and tennis. Besides, there are facilities such as gymnasium, and medical –like facility; extra co-curricular activities are promoted through organisations such as the National Service Scheme-NSS.

All the courses offered at Ekashila College of Education are full time and they offer a total of three courses. In the current academic year, these programmes have been given the highest number of admissions with 100 students for the B.Ed programme, 50 for M.Ed programme and 50 for the D.El.Ed programme. The college mainly specialises in teacher education and trains learners to achieve different positions in the field of education. Although there is no exact statistic information for the total number of graduates regarding this college but, its regular intake means that it produces a certain number of qualified educators every year.

Admission in Ekashila College of Education differs from one course to another such as; For the B.Ed course the admissions are offered on the basis of the score obtained in the Education Common Entrance Test (Ed-CET), which is held every year by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. It conducted as directed by the reservation policies relative to the entrance examination, and successful candidates are offered places. Thus the M. Ed programme admission are controlled through entrance test to be conducted by the Director, Directorate of Admissions, Kakatiya University, Warangal. Admission of students in the D.El.Ed programme takes place according to their state rank in the respective DIET CET by the Government of Telangana. For admission to the college the following examination is considered: Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (TSEDCET). Unfortunately, information concerning scholarships offered by the college is still scarce, however, its open-minded policies are well illustrated by its various ways of admission and course provision for willing educator from all backgrounds.