The School of Education (SoE) came into the recognition as an academic quest of NSOU in the year 2013. It was established with a view to provide quality inputs in Education as a liberal discipline and Teacher Education in particular to pre and in-service teacher and development of academic output in education and Special Education. The SoE has provided quality teacher education to a large number of in-service teachers to fulfil the mandate of RTE Act, 2009 within 2015.
At present the School offers RCI recognised and UGC approved programmes, viz, B.Ed. Spl. Ed. (HI/VI/I.D) and M.A. in Education. These two programmes are among the oldest academic programmes of NSOU. To achieve the integrity as well as to develop meaningful equity and access to M.A in Education, the introduction of BDP in Education was very much needed. With this backdrop, the University was successful to accord necessary approval from the DEB-UGC. None the less, BDP in Education/B.A. in Education is being introduced from 2018-19 academic sessions. NSOU is the only State Open University to receive a NOC from the RCI, New Delhi to conduct M.Ed. in Special Education (H.I/I.D)-ODL mode from 2020-2021 sessions under SoE.
In the purview of regular way of functioning, SoE keeps trend of intensive Personal Contact Programmes (PCPs) that is distinctive of NSOU. The School fervently awaits for the resuming of Ph.D programmes (Regular Mode) in conformity with revised UGC rules.
The curriculums of all the programmes have been framed to keep abreast with the changing nature of structure of knowledge in Education and Special Education. SLMs are also upgraded periodically to instil new ideas and innovations. The School is trying to reach its learners through ICT support to rejuvenate the academic mission of "Reaching the unreached". ICT support encompasses digitised SLMs, A/V lectures, Tutorial A-V Lectures and all type of academic and administrative support through the support service cell. A dedicated website (www.nsouict.ac.in) is being maintained for this purpose.
The faculties of the SoE are constantly engaged with various projects, workshops, seminar, and conferences to keep them in constant interactions with the wider academia.
Major Achievements:
SoE NSOU takes the credit to successfully provide quality teacher education to a large number of In-service Teachers (29,515 Elementary) to fulfil the mandate of RTE-Act 2009 within 2015 in a project mode with the approval of NCTE. This course on a Project mode as per Government of West Bengal directive was offered in 183 Study Centres/B.Ed Institutions across West Bengal.
In addition to this, faculties from SoE were invited to participate in a National workshop on "Making pre-service teacher education curriculum inclusive" organised by NCERT, New Delhi held at Mysore (preparation of the draft curriculum) and New Delhi (final draft of the curriculum was developed and adapted) respectively.
SoE, NSOU has also taken other initiatives and undertaken collaborative assignments with other reputed organization like Backward class Welfare Dept. GoWB, TESS-India, Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), Gyan Vani and many more.
Recently the SoE, has conducted 23 Training & Sensitization of key Functionaries of Central and State Govt, Local Bodies and other Services Providers on Disability issue. About 920 College and University Faculties, School teachers, Head Masters/Mistress have been sensitized in the various districts of West Bengal funded by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), RCI, New Delhi, Govt of India.
Two 5-day National-level Refresher Programme, RCI funded (CRE equivalence) has been also conducted for aspiring special educators in the field of Research Methodology on Disability Studies and Rehabilitation.
SoE has successfully completed a joint project with CoL-CEMCA, New Delhi on "Development of Curriculum and SLM on Capacity Building and Professional Development of Teachers and Teacher Educators for successful implementation of Inclusiveness".
A 3-month self-financed certificate programme on "Capacity building and professional development on Inclusive Education" has been recently conducted successfully by the SoE. This course has been now upgraded to 6-month certificate course offered by the newly formed Centre, CDSER under the aegis of SoE, NSOU.
KKHSOU has adopted the Course material of the Certificate Programme on Inclusive Education that has been developed under NSOU-CEMCA project for their ICT based intervention Programmes for School Teachers: An initiative by KKHSOU for quality School Education.
One-Day National Conference-Call for papers (CRE Status) was also conducted straddling various stakeholders of the academia and disability field.
The School is presently working with Abheda Foundation to empower language skills among the B.Ed. Spl. Ed learners.
SoE was recently affianced and developed a "15-Day In-Service Training Module for 15,000 General Education Teachers of Tripura State" under a joint collaboration with the RCI and NSOU project".
SoE has taken initiatives to organize various National seminars, conferences, workshops and Extension activities to disseminate new information and ideas in the realm of Education, Special Education and Teacher Education at even interval.
Campus of SoE:
Academic Campus
City Campus
School of Education
Netaji Subhas Open University
3rd Floor, Academic Building,
Ghoshpara Station Road,
Kalyani, Nadia, Pin - 741 235.
School of Education
Netaji Subhas Open University
CF-162, Sector-I, Salt Lake,
Kolkata - 700 064.
Email: schooledu@wbnsou.ac.in
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15.07.2025:Online Extended Counselling Sessions (ECS) of HPA 3rd Year (6th Semester)......Detail
06.08.2025:Notice for Extended Counselling Programme (ECP) for MSW Part-I (Batch: January 2024) at Jalpaiguri Regional Centre......Detail
30.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGHI, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Burdwan Raj College......Detail
30.07.2025:PCP Notice for PGEC, 1st Year (January 2025 batch) for the month of August, 2025 at Basanti Devi College......Detail
25.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, 1st Year, January 2025 Batch at Women's Christian College......Detail
23.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Bankura Christian College......Detail
23.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Durgapur Regional Centre......Detail
22.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Durgapur Regional Campus......Detail
22.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Sarojini Naidu College.....Detail
21.07.2025:Notice for ECP for MSW Part-I (Batch: January 2024) and Part-II (Batch: January 2023) at Kalyani Regional Centre......Detail
21.07.2025:Offline PCP Schedule of PGJM, Paper: 2A & 2B, Part-I, Batch January 2025 at Durgapur Regional Campus......Detail
21.07.2025:Offline PCP Schedule of PGJM, Paper: 2A & 2B, Part-I, Batch January 2025 at Sarojini Naidu College......Detail
21.07.2025:2nd PCP in PGMT for Paper: 2-A and 2-B, January 2025 Batch (Part-I) at Women's Christian College, Raja N. L. Khan College, Bolpur College and Coochbehar College......Detail
21.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Coochbehar College......Detail
17.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Kalyani Regional Campus......Detail
16.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGPS, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch (Part-I) at Cooch Behar College......Detail
16.07.2025:Face-to-Face PCP Schedule of PGELT, Paper-III & IV (New Syllabus), January 2025 Batch at Women's Christian College......Detail
16.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Syamaprasad College......Detail
16.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Women's College......Detail
15.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Kalyani Regional Centre, NSOU......Detail
15.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGPS, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch (Part-I) at Maharaja Manindra Chandra College......Detail
15.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGPS, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch (Part-I) at Women's Christian College......Detail
15.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGHI, Paper-II, 1st Year (January 2025 Batch) at Rani Dhanya Kumari College......Detail
14.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-II, Part-I (January 2025 Batch) at Raja Narendralal Khan Women's College (Autonomous)......Detail
14.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-II, Part-I (January 2025 Batch) at Raja Narendralal Khan Women's College (Autonomous)......Detail
11.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-II, 1st Year (January 2025 Batch) at Rani Dhanya Kumari College......Detail
11.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, 1st Year (January 2025 Batch) at Rani Dhanya Kumari College......Detail
11.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGEG, Paper-I, Part-II, January 2025 Batch at Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalaya......Detail
11.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGBG, Paper-I, Part-II, January 2025 Batch at Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalaya......Detail
10.07.2025:Notice for Extended Counselling Programme (ECP) for MSW Part-I (Batch: January 2024) on 21/07/2025 & 22/07/2025 at Jalpaiguri RC......Detail
08.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGPS, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch (Part-I) at Rani Dhanya Kumari College......Detail
08.07.2025:PCP Schedule of PGHI, Paper-II, January 2025 Batch at Bijoy Krishna Girls College......Detail
04.07.2025:Notice regarding cancellation of Extended Counselling Session (Online) for PGPA Part-I (January 2025 Batch)......Detail
02.07.2025:REVISED PCP Schedule of PGPS, Paper-I at Maharaja Manindra Chandra College......Detail
01.07.2025:PCP Notice for PG Economics (PGEC), 1st Year (January 2025 batch) for the month of July, 2025 at Basanti Devi College......Detail
01.07.2025:PCP cum Workshop for Formation of Micro-Groups for Practical Paper X(A) - Field Work (PGJM TEE 2024) at Sarojini Naidu College on 13/07/2025......Detail
19.12.2024:Online Lecture Schedule for M.Ed. Special Education (IDD & HI)-ODL, Semester-I, Academic Session starting from October 2024 (Revised from July-August 2024), LSC Code: SEMH-02......Detail
13.12.2024:Mandatory offline PCP along with the Workshop & Practical (PHASE-I) for 1st Semester M.Ed. Special Education (IDD & HI)-ODL, academic session starting from October 2024 (Revised from July-August 2024) at Kalyani Campus......Detail
04.08.2025:Download Admit Card for School Placement/Internship for Term-End Supervision December-2024 of B.Ed. Special Education [ID(IDD)/HI/VI]-ODL (5th Semester)......Detail
22.07.2025:Notice regarding submussion of Examination Form for B.Ed. Spl. Edn. [ID (IDD)/HI/VI]-ODL, TEE (School Placement/Internship), December-2024 (5th Semester)......Detail
09.07.2025:Examination Form submission Circular for ADJMC (1 Year Course), TEE December-2024. Notice | Exam Form
02.07.2025:Notice regarding Examination Form submission through Online for BLIS TEE, December-2024......Detail
30.06.2025:Schedule for NSOU-RET of Zoology (PHDZO), Part-II (Viva-Voce examination), Academic Session 2023-24......Detail
26.06.2025:Schedule for NSOU-RET of Chemistry (PHDCH), Part-II (Viva-Voce examination), Academic Session 2023-24......Detail
25.06.2025:Schedule for NSOU-RET of Mathematics (PHDMT), Part-II (Viva-Voce examination), Academic Session 2023-24......Detail
20.06.2025:REVISED Notice for Examination Form submission (1st Phase) through online for Post Graduate Term-End Examination, December-2024......Detail
12.06.2025:Notice for Examination Form submission (1st Phase) through online for Post Graduate Term-End Examination, June-2024 / December-2024......Detail
23.07.2025:B.ED. ADMISSION: General Instructions for Counselling of the Listed Candidates (Rank-Wise) for Admission to B.Ed. Spl. Ed. (IDD/HI/VI)-ODL Programme, Session 2025-2027....Detail
23.07.2025:B.ED. ADMISSION: Provisional Overall Merit List of B.Ed. Special Education 2025....Detail
23.07.2025:M.ED. ADMISSION: General Instructions for Counselling of the Listed Candidates (Rank-Wise) for Admission to M.Ed. Spl. Ed. (IDD/HI)-ODL Programme, Session 2025-2027....Detail
23.07.2025:M.ED. ADMISSION: Provisional Overall Merit List of M.Ed. Special Education (HI) 2025....Detail
23.07.2025:M.ED. ADMISSION: Provisional Overall Merit List of M.Ed. Special Education (IDD) 2025....Detail
19.07.2025:INTERNSHIP: UG Internship Programme in Bengali organized by CLTCS in collaboration with Dept. of Bengali, Admission Date: 15.07.2025 to 15.08.2025. Detail | Admission Link | Google Form
15.07.2025:ADMISSION: Revised Notice: RET 2 (viva voce) for candidates who have qualified the RET 1 in English for admission to the Ph.D. Programme in English for the Academic Year 2023-24 on 17/07/2025....Detail
14.07.2025:PG & BLIS ADMISSION: Admission Notification for PG & BLIS Programmes, AY 2025-26 (Session July 2025)....Detail
14.07.2025:PG & BLIS ADMISSION: Steps to be followed by applicants for PG & BLIS (except PGZO, PGGR & PGES) Admission....Detail
14.07.2025:PG & BLIS ADMISSION: Steps to be followed by applicants for PGZO, PGGR & PGES Admission....Detail
14.07.2025:PG & BLIS ADMISSION: Prospectus for PG & BLIS, AY 2025-26....Detail
14.07.2025:PG & BLIS ADMISSION: Anti-Ragging Committee of the Netaji Subhas Open University....Detail
02.07.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to the 12 weeks Research Internship for Under Graduate Students. Detail | Admission Link
02.07.2025:ADMISSION: Re-opening of Admission portal for Submission of Online Applications for B.Ed. Special Education (ODL) and M.Ed. Special Education (ODL) Programmes for the Academic Session 2025-2027. Detail
02.07.2025:ADMISSION: Viva-Voce for Admission to the Ph.D. Programme in Political Science (Academic Year: 2023-2024). Detail
20.06.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to Short-Term Courses (Duration: 6 months) for the July 2025 session (4th Cycle). Notice | Admission Link
16.06.2025:RENEWAL: Renewal Notification for MBA, 2024 (2nd Phase). Detail
16.06.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to MOOC - Cyber Security (5th Cycle). Flyer | Notice | Admission Link
05.06.2025:ADMISSION: Extension of Last Date for Submission of Online Applications for B.Ed. Special Education (ODL) and M.Ed. Special Education (ODL) Programmes for the Academic Session 2025-2027. Detail
20.05.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to Short-Term Training Programmes (July 2025 session), under the Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL), Schoolof Vocational Studies, NSOU. Notice | Admission Form
16.05.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to Blended Vocational Education and Training (VET) Programme under the School of Vocational Studies (July 2025 Session). Notice | Admission Form
14.05.2025:MBA RENEWAL: Renewal Notification for MBA, 2024. Detail
10.05.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to MOOC - Child Rights and Protection (CRP), 6th Cycle. Detail | Admission Link
07.05.2025:B.ED. ADMISSION: Applications are invited for Admission to B.Ed. Special Education (IDD/HI/VI)-ODL for the academic session 2025-2027......Detail
07.05.2025:M.ED. ADMISSION: Applications are invited for Admission to M.Ed. Special Education (IDD/HI)-ODL for the academic session 2025-2027......Detail
29.04.2025:ADMISSION: Admission to Short Term Training Programme on News Writing Course (Sangbad Rachanar Pathsala) 4th Cycle, organized by the CLTCS under the aegis of School of Humanities, NSOU. Detail | Brochure | Admission Link
28.04.2025:ADMISSION: Notification Related to Incomplete Submission and Verification of DEB ID For PG, BLIS and Advance Diploma Admission Academic Year 2024-2025. Detail | Google Form Link
07.08.2025:Advertisement for the engagement of one full time dedicated faculty in Education on purely temporary basis in the School of Education, NSOU [Walk-in Interview date: 18/08/2025]......Detail
07.08.2025:Pre-Admission Counselling for the academic year 2025-2026 (Session July 2025) for PG, FYUG and BLIS Programmes. Detail | ZOOM Link | YouTube Link
06.08.2025:Orientation cum Induction Programme for Short Term Courses (Online) (Batch: July 2025) on 11/08/2025. Detail | Google Meet Link
05.08.2025:Launching of "Viksit Bharat Yuva Connect Program (VBYCP)" & Badminton Tournament on International Youth Day....Detail
04.08.2025:Online Pre-Admission Counselling Workshop (PGJM 2025-26) on 08/08/2025. Detail | Zoom Link
04.08.2025:Sensitization Webinar on 'Intellectual Asset Protection & Management' by IIC, NSOU on 13/08/2025. Detail | Zoom Link
10.07.2025:Two-Day International Symposium on "Education 5.0: Expected Roles of Teachers & Learners" on 22/08/2025 & 23/08/2025. Flyer | Notice | Registration Link
04.08.2025:e-Tender for Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) for the 11 KV Substation at Kalyani Regional Centre, Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU)......Detail
30.07.2025:Notice inviting quotations for supply, installation and delivery of Printer, Webcam and Speaker at COEdn, NSOU, Salt Lake......Detail
Admission to Advance Diploma Programme, AY 2025-26 (Offline)...Notification | Admission Form
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