Govt diploma in pre-school education launched

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 19

Delhi government-run District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) will offer a diploma course in pre-school education beginning from the next academic session. This diploma would be started in all 9 DIETs of the government, with 450 seats in the first year.

The government had earlier announced the setting up of an Early Childhood Education Development (ECED) program with 3000 centres across Delhi. The move to offer diplomas in pre-school education is aimed at building the capacity required for the ECED programme.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said, “There is a need to create institutional foundations on which programs can be run successfully. In order for our plan to open 3000 ECED centres, it is important to build human resource capacities parallely. That is the purpose of the newly launched diploma program.”