JSS College of Education came into existence in the year 1980 and the college was established by the BLDE Association. The college is affiliated to the Karnatak University and it holds the pride of being the only college under this university to offer Post Graduate Teacher Training course under regular stream of education. It also holds the pride of being the only college in the Karnatak University that has study centres of KSOU and IGNOU. The college has produced 100% results in the B. Ed and M. Ed course for the past five years consequently.

Courses offered:

JSS College of Education offers the following teacher-education courses with affiliation from the Karnatak University:

• Bachelor of Education

• Master of Education

Eligibility for admission:

B. Ed Course:

For getting into the B. Ed course offered by the JSS College of Education, candidates must be degree holders in the stream of arts or science and they should have studied any one language and any two elective subjects given below at their degree level:

Languages: Sanskrit, Urdu, Marathi, Hindi, Kannada & English

Electives: Economics, Geography, Sociology, Political Science, History, Mathematics, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry or Physics

In addition, they should have obtained not less than 50% of marks in the degree course as an aggregate of all three years exclusive of internal assessment and class examination marks, in the case of SC/ST candidates, they must have secured not less than 45% of marks. For candidates, who have completed their degree course from any other university other than Karnatak University, they should get eligibility certificate from the Registrar of Karnatak University to get admission to the B. Ed Course.

M. Ed Course:

For getting into the M. Ed course offered by the JSS College of Education, candidates must have completed their B. Ed course with not less than 55% of marks from a recognized university or institution and admission will be done on the basis of merit secured by the candidates in the qualifying examination.

Study centre:

As mentioned earlier, JSS College of Education, acts as the study centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University and Karnataka State Open University. The college offers more than 20 programmes by acting as the study centre of IGNOU and KSOU has selected JSS College of Education for offering M. Ed course.

Labs at the college:

The campus of JSS College of Education has the following labs to offer the best practical coaching to the future teachers in different subjects:

• Computer lab

• Education technology lab

• Psychology lab

• Science lab

Library:

JSS College of Education has a rich library with a collection of more than 15,000 volumes of books. The collection includes books on core papers, optional papers and method papers in both English and in Kannada languages.

Contact Details:

JSS College of Education,

Bijapur,

Karnataka

Website: http://www.bldea.org/jsscol/