Karmela Rani Training College, Teachers Education Institute

Karmela Rani Training College, Kollam, is a Teachers Education institution founded in 1960 by the late Bishop of Quilon Rt. Rev. Dr. Jerome M. Fernandez, offering in Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) degree course in 7 disciplines and Post Graduate Degree Course in Education (M.Ed.). On July 16 every year, Catholics across the globe celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Karmela Rani. And it was on 16th of July, 1960 that the intimation from the Registrar regarding the approval of application for starting the college was received. Hence Bishop Jerome, the founder chose this name for the College.

The considerable provision for educational expansion in the second and third plan required for their implementation a large army of well trained teachers. The steady increase in the number of high schools and the Government’s insistence on the pre-service training created a need for further increasing the number of teachers education training colleges. The corporate managements like that of the Diocese of Quilon, with a large number of middle and High schools under them felt the need to make their own provision for training teachers education for their institutions.

The college of Teachers Education is affiliated to the University of Kerala and is recognized by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE). The aim of the college is to send into the field of  Education in India, teachers who are intelligent, spiritually vigorous, cultured, healthy, vocationally prepared, social minded and committed to the cause of Indian Education in whatever sphere they may serve God and Country. The motto of our college is “True Light Enlighteneth”.