College Foundation Day

The Paro College of Education celebrated its Foundation Day on 1st November, 2011 in the College basketball court . A special assembly was held. The Director, all the teaching faculty members and all the trainee-students were gathered at the venue to marked the celebrating. 

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Brief Background  

Paro College of Education was established as a Pre-school Care Training Center in November 1975 in the Rinpung campus with an initial enrollment of 15 student teachers. In June 1985, the centre launched a Primary Teacher Certificate (PTC) programme followed by Zhungkhag Teacher Certificate (ZTC) programme in February 1993. With the passage of time the center was named as Teacher Training Center (TTC). The PTC programme aimed to train High School graduates to teach at the primary level (i.e., Class PP to 6), while the ZTC programme aimed to train graduates of the then Semtokha Rigney School to teach Dzongkha in Schools. In August 1999, the ZTC took a major milestone in the college’s history was the launch of the Bachelor of Primary Education (B.Ed) programme.

In the same year, on 18th November the new campus at Nangkha was inaugurated by Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck. In July 2000, the erstwhile Teacher Training Center was named as the National Institute of Education (NIE). After one year later, in May 2001, the Center for Educational Research and Development culture of research and scholarship that lead to improvement in the development of education programmes and practices. In January 2003, the institute launched a Bachelor of Education in Dzongkha programme and a Diploma in School Leadership and Management programme, both of which were offered through the distance mode. In the same year programme in Master of Education (M. Ed) in School Leadership and management was launched. In February 2007, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) programme in Dzongkha was launched with the aim to train university graduates to teach at the secondary level (Class 7–12). In the year 2003, NIE, Paro was affiliated to the Royal University of Bhutan and later it was named as Paro College of Education.