Teacher training for IB curriculum

BENGALURU: The

Indus Training and Research Institute

(ITARI) and The University of Bath, UK, have joined hands to offer dual certification postgraduate teacher training programmes. On Monday, university professors

Jeff Thompson

and

Mary Hayden

signed n MoU with Lt General (retired) Arjun Ray, PVSM, VSM and CEO, ITARI.

The institute will offer postgraduate level professional IB teacher certification programmes in international education. The programme is customized to meet the requirements of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools. The tie-up will offer masters in education (MA) with the IB Educators Certificate (

IBEC

). “In 2003, there were only11 IB schools in India. Now, the number has grown to 132. This tremendous growth has led to a huge demand for teaching professionals who are qualified to teach the IB curriculum,” said Ray.