‘Don’t Scrap B.El.Ed Programme’: International Academics from Cambridge, Wisconsin Appeal to Edu Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
Abhinaya Harigovind | 22 April 2025 | The Indian Express
Eminent professors of education from across the world, including Prof Michael Apple at University of Wisconsin, Prof William Pinar at the University of British Columbia, and Prof Robin Alexander, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, have appealed to Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to cancel plans to discontinue the B.El.Ed (Bachelor of Elementary Education) programme, a four-year degree programme in elementary teacher education.
In a letter to Pradhan, they referred to the move as counter-productive…