District Institutes of Education and Training - Teacher Education

District Institutes of Education and Training: A Comparative Study in Three Indian States
of accountability indicate, there remain many questions as to how those
institutions do and should articulate with each other.
DIETs have attracted negative commentaries from official sources in the decade
since their inception: those sources reflect on the norms by which they are
appointed, attitudinal problems, and limited professional development. This
report will investigate these issues in further detail.
The establishment of DIETs in itself, however, reflects a policy anomaly that has
contributed to these issues of quality.
1.7 Policy issue
DIETs were conceived as a further tier of a system whose qualitative weaknesses
had been signalled as sufficiently serious to warrant a targeted scheme for their
improvement. The scheme that established DIETs simultaneously demanded the
overhaul of the institute that the DIET was modelled upon (SCERT), would
report to, and whose role, as the parent institution, would be to provide the DIETs
with resource and other support. In the context of a hierarchical system gradually
initiating decentralisation, this was a policy anomaly that has had far reaching
consequences for the institutional development of DIETs.
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