Department of Education

The Department of Education was established in 1988 by recruiting one Professor, two Readers and four Lecturers. The Department launched the B.Ed  programme in the academic session 1988-89 as it was desired by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh  for clearing the backlog of untrained teachers working in secondary and senior secondary schools. The Department was also set up with the objective of producing the faculty for teaching at college and University level. M.A. (Education) two year course was needed at the college level to teach the students of B.A. (Hons) of Education. M.Ed programme was started in 2014 as per the UGC XII plan allocation order of MHRD, Government of India. At present, the Department is running B.Ed programme with intake capacity of 100 students, M.Ed Programme with the intake of 26 students and M.A( Education) with the intake of 45 students. The Department also possesses research facility for Ph.D. research scholars and 55 Ph.D. research scholars are pursuing their doctoral research. The faculty members are engaged in major and minor research projects of various agencies like UGC, ICSSR and SSA, Arunachal Pradesh.