Ideal College of Education, Thane: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

Ideal College of Education, Thane, was set up in 2006 and is a private undergraduate college to impart education to the future generation teachers. This coeducation institution is situated in Kalyan, Maharashtra with an area space of 6 acres that provides a favourable studying environment. The college is approved by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) nowadays it is having total strength of 50 students & having 6 faculty members. Ideal College of Education offer 3 programmes in 2 courses, as a unique teacher training institution relevant to the current demands of the educational industry.

For its part, the institute has a variety of amenities that are intended to facilitate teaching and learning process among its students. A humanities Library also provide student and teaching/learning resource by stocking adequate books on teacher education, other books and encyclopaedias. The Teaching Hospital Library has section for inter loan service for students to borrow books and other learning materials in addition to having a section for accessing national and international magazines, periodicals, journals among others. The college is still in the process of working on establishing a digital library to complement the existing ones as well. To support laboratories, Physical and Biological Sciences are specially provided by the college, all the required apparatus and equipment including those recommended by NCTE and SCERT are well existing. The access to the best and latest infrastructure facilities are available for students through a computer center with twenty terminals.

Ideal College of Education has three full time teacher education courses for students. These are Distant Education councils: Diploma in Education (D.Ed), Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) as well as Diploma in Teacher Education (D.T.Ed) that takes two academic years. We have total 50 seats in D.Ed program and in D.T.Ed program there is hundred seats only. All courses offered are laden with development in pedagogy and education practices with view to producing good teachers in the profession.

Selectivity is not practised intensively at Ideal College of Education since there is no entrance test but the institution allocates students based on the marks achieved in the Standard XII examination and/or other relevant examinations. The college has to adhere to the policies of the state government, UT administration and the affiliated university. For the D.T. Ed program, a common merit list is prepared depending upon the marks obtained in standard XII, arranging in order of merit, no reservation in the merit list for SC / ST / OBC and other categories. This makes the process clear and guarantee that deserving individual who wishes to be a teacher has a chance to achieve the feat.

Ideal College of Education offers much more than other colleges or education institutions, delivering a complete educational package. For the physical education for the students, boys and girls both have a well equipped gymkhana having multi-gym items, bench press, rover & walker, etc. It also has carom, table tennis, chess for indoors Students can also watch movies at the mini theatre, play cards, novels, magazines, carom, table tennis, and chess. The college has facilities for football coaching and also chess, to make the children active and instill them with abilities to plan ahead. A large cafeteria provides hygienically cleaned low priced food from several delectable cuisines for the students. Since it offers all rounded facilities and specialized efforts in preparing teachers, Ideal College of Education, Thane, marks as a prospective college for teacher education in Maharashtra.