India, July 20 -- Thousands of students have enrolled in the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)'s four-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP), set to become the only recognised qualification for school teacher recruitment from 2030, even as the course framework is yet to be released.

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 mandated a new National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE) by 2021. The statutory regulator has, over six years, expanded ITEP from a pilot in 42 institutions with 3,950 seats in 2023-24 to over 300 institutions offering over 24,000 seats this academic year.

HT has learnt that a 12-member committee that the Union education ministry constituted to devise the framework submitted i...