India, Aug. 30 -- The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has announced a "final opportunity" for teacher education institutions (TEIs) running four-year integrated BA-BEd, BSc-BEd, and BCom-BEd programmes under the now-omitted Appendix-13 of its 2014 regulations to transition to the new Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP).

The council will open its online portal in mid-September to allow institutions to apply afresh for the transition into ITEP, submitting relevant documents, including proof of being a multidisciplinary institution.

The rules under Appendix-13 of the NCTE Regulations, 2014, which allowed standalone colleges to run four-year integrated BEd courses, were scrapped in October 2021. Institutions were the...