About us

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE

Thepresent C.T.E Balasore had its inception in the year 1977 as the Government Training College, Balasore to fulfil the long-cherished desire/demand of the people of Northern Odisha. It was instituted as the 6th Govt. Training College of Odisha in the historical Balasore town. Initially the College started functioning with 64 seats in Balasore Zilla School building with a very limited accommodation. The Training College was upgraded to College of Teacher Education (CTE) from 1989-90 with an increase of intake from 64 to 128. At present the student strength of the College has been reduced to 100 as per the instruction of NCTE. The College which was imparting only pre service training to the B.Ed. students, after its upgradation to C. T. E.the College has taken up the added task of imparting in-service orientation to the teachers of Secondary Schools in different subjects in the district of Balasore and Bhadrak. The College was affiliated to Utkal University since its inception. But now it has been affiliated to F.M. University, Balasore.

VISION

• Qualitative improvement of Teacher Education[both Preservice and Inservice].

MISSION

• Preparing teachers, scholars andresearchers of excellence.
• Professional development of teachers through quality education, research, innovation and extension service.

GOAL

• To provide qualitative teaching and service.
• To enhance academic excellence and integrity of the teachers.
• To develop scholarly research and professional leadership.
• To enhance the effective and efficient management capacity of teacher education institutions.
• To develop competency and commitment of the student-teachers and inservice teachers for quality education.