Welcome to Marathwada College Of Eduction
Marathwada College of Education was established in 1970. It is located in the historical city of Aurangabad. It was established under the auspices of the Late Dr. Rafiq Zakaria, renowned scholar, a politician of great integrity, an educationist of great foresight and an eminent author of international repute. The College bears testimony to Dr. Rafiq Zakaria’s foresight and vision in recognizing the need for a college of education that would focus on training teachers of Urdu, Marathi, and English and imbibe in them the spirit of secularism and national integration.
From the Desk of the Principal
At the outset I would like to pay my humble tribute to our founder Chairman late Dr Rafiq Zakaria and his better half Late Madam Fatema Zakaria for establishing this wonderful institution. Marathwada College of Education is a premier institution with a glorious past; it is a symbol of quality education with a track record of exemplary results. One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so; we cannot as a country improve economically, socially and culturally without quality education. Economic prosperity and quality education are inexorably linked with each other. Marathwada College of Education has in its more than 50 years of glorious past is successfully shouldering the responsibility of producing trained quality teachers.
In changing times, along with technological development and emerging digital world, the role of teachers is also changing. To live up to this transformation, we have introduced new strategies in our pedagogical practices and new initiatives and collaborative approaches. We have extended our outreach and social activities with our long-term association with various institutions of repute, government and non-government organizations. The continuous, comprehensive and collaborative efforts of the management, faculty, students, alumni and all other stakeholders have cultivated a culture that is full of contentment and belongingness. We are blessed with visionary management, who continuously encourages for providing a holistic platform for teaching, learning, research, sports, culture, community outreach, learning resources and focused training for career and employment. The Hon’ble President of the Society Mr. Farhat Jamal is the main source of inspiration and we translate his vision by creating an environment that fosters competitiveness, creative thinking and innovation in our teacher trainees.
About Rauza Bagh Campus
In the I7th century, Peer Ismail Shah, a sufi and tutor of Mughal Prince Aurangzeb, laid the foundation stone of a Madarsa at Rauza Bagh, Aurangabad, where children of noble lineage were to be imparted with knowledge of Arabic and Persian. The Madarsa which later became the mausoleum of its founder, fell into the hands of the British and was ruined. Now 300 years hence, it has acquired a new soul. For long, the dilapidated Madarsa and its environs wore a deserted look, haunted by flying foxes, owls and hyenas. The mansion, which was a fine blend of Mughal style architecture, was crumbling into insignificance when by a turn of good fortune, it caught the eye of Dr. Rafiq Zakaria, the scholar-politician, who was making the rounds of the Aurangabad constituency during the 1962 Assembly Elections, and he set about the task of restoring the Madarsa, to its lost glory. The ruins kindled a dream in Dr. Zakaria’s mind. Moved by the extreme poverty and backwardness of the people of the region, he envisioned raising a Centre of learning at the site of the legendary base of education. He invested the campus with a unique aura of India’s composite culture.
Dr. Rafiq Zakaria Campus today enthuses every person associated with it to bring in a new dawn with a commitment to quality in educational process and the drive to infuse inspiration in the hearts of our students.
About The College
A quarter of a century ago, hardly anybody would have realized the need of a College of Education, which could cater to the needs of teachers of Urdu medium secondary schools in Maharashtra. There wasn’t a single College of Education in existence for this purpose. Late Dr. Rafiq Zakaria, a renowned scholar, politician of great integrity, author of several books and educationist of great foresight, rose to the need of the hour and established such an institution in the backward region of Maharashtra. Thus came into existence the “Marathwada College of Education” in 1970. Being a man with firm commitment to secularism and nationalism, the late Dr. Rafiq Zakaria also made provision for training of teachers of Marathi medium schools. This provided the students and teachers belonging to different sections of society to interact with each other and to imbibe in them the spirit of national integration and secularism. Today the college has been accredited as “A” by NAAC, Bangalore and “O” Grade by University.
It stands among one of the five “A” Colleges of Education in Maharashtra State and eleven “A+” Colleges of Education all over India.
Dr. Zakaria did not rest at this. To cater to the demand of trained teachers for English Medium schools, a new division of English Medium was added to Marathwada College of Education in the year 2003 with an intake capacity of I00 students. Now under the dynamic leadership of our president Mrs. Fatma Rafiq Zakaria, the college has plunged ahead to be the first non-grant college in the whole of Marathwada to introduce the Post Graduate Programme in Education i.e. M.Ed. with an intake 25 students in the war 2005-2006 and an added feather in the cap is the allotment of an additional division of 25 students to the present M.Ed. Course by the NCTE, WRC, Bhopal w.e.f. academic year 2008-2009, raising the total intake capacity to 50. Mrs. Fatma Rafiq Zakaria has brought in innovations in the college curriculum and has left no stone unturned in the promotion of quality education and faculty development programmes. The faculty of Marathwada College of Education have the great privilege of being given special guidance and encouragement for their further studies like the completion of Ph.D. and qualifying for the National Eligibility Test and State Eligibility Test. Under her strong surveillance and monitoring the faculty and the students have got the greatest of the opportunities for their intellectual pursuits.
The college is in the beautiful premises of Dr. Rafiq Zakaria Campus, housed in the magnificent building with excellent infrastructural facilities and well equipped laboratories, ideal for imparting quality teacher education.
Marathwada College of Education is credited as the only college in Maharashtra with an intake capacity of 300 students at B.Ed. level and 100 students at M.Ed. level. The medium of instruction at B.Ed. is Urdu, English and Marathi while the practice teaching is done in Urdu, Marathi, Hindi and English languages. This is the only Urdu Medium College to get cent per cent grant and caters the education of weaker sections of society. The college is included in the category of 2 (f) and I2 (b) of the University Grants Commission. The college has obtained the status of religious minority institution since April 2003.
Our Vision
Marathwada College of Education has always strived to be the Centre of Excellence by providing world class ‘Teacher Education’ to students from all sections of the society.
Our Mission
Marathwada College of Education envisages to impart quality training with commitment to excellence. The college endorses to impart value added education with efficient and competent man power, excellent infrastructure and innovation in teacher training and research programmes in order to generate globally competitive and skilled teachers, researchers and thorough professionals.
Our Goal
To train and equip teachers at all levels, to achieve excellence and develop all round meritorious professionals, to meet global challenges.
Objectives
Our Mission
⦁ To train and develop integrated and effective teachers with the highest level of excellence.
⦁ To organize advanced studies and promote research in education.
⦁ To provide cultural, secular and ethical values and foster in students the spirit of National Integration.
⦁ To achieve the objective of secularism by promoting literacy and wisdom among students
⦁ To carry out social services through extensive activities and hence pave the way for self-empowerment and develop dignity of labour.
⦁ To inculcate innovation and research aptitude among prospective teachers and bring them into the new realm of education technology.
- Permanently Affiliated College
- Established: 1970, Recognized by UGC U/s 2(f) and 12(B)
- An ISO 9001:2008 Certified by TUV, Austria
