Highlights
Faculty of Education (FOE) was established as the College of Education in 1956before the establishment of its mother institution, Tribhuvan University (TU) in 1959 in order toinstitutionalise teacher education programmesin Nepal. It is the largest faculty of TU in terms of the number of students and the number of affiliated campuses. With 26 constituent campuses and 590 affiliated colleges throughout the country, FOE has the biggest network of teacher education in the country.Since its establishment, FoE has been contributing to the nation by producing and supplying all kinds of human resources needed for educational sector of the country. It has offered diverse educational programmes in a wider range of subject areas including social studies, science and information and communication technology education (ICT) education.
Faculty of Education (FOE) currently offers educational programs in Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Master of Education (M.Ed.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Education. Bachelors and Masters programmes are blended with the academic contents and professional courses. But these programmes have placed more emphasis on theory-oriented academic courses than professional skills. In the emerging context, FOE is committed to reinvigorating the quality of the teacher education programmes by blending the strong theoretical foundations with the sound pedagogical professional competence that include engaging and interactive pedagogy, instructional planning, material development, classroom management and evaluation. Practice Teaching/Practicum, being the most important feature of a teacher education programme, needs to be made rigorous to ensure pedagogical competence among the graduates.
Faculty of Education envisions thepromotion of quality education across the country through the preparation of highly qualified teachers.
The mission of Faculty of Education is to provide leadership to teacher education and professional development in the country by developing itself as a center of excellence for teacher education and training, educational studies, research and innovation.
The goal of FOE is to produce trained teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers for the country. It also aims at producing educational planners and managers, curriculum designers and human resources needed for the educational sector of the country through its different programmes. FOE aims at achieving the following objectives: