bareilly after national council for teachers education ncte increased the duration of bed course from existing one to two years and issued new guidelines applicable from academic session 201516 officials at mahatma jyotiba phule mjp rohilkhand university said there is no clarity on many issues like who would get thousands of students attach with schools for 16 weeks of internship whether remuneration would be paid for this period and on appointment of more teachers as per the new guidelines students in their firstyear would have to do internship for four weeks while the secondyear students are required to intern over a period of 16 weeks with a school apart from teaching students would have to involve in other school activities including organizing cultural programmes of children acting as an examiner during exams and training children for sports and craft works during the internship period bed students would be eligible to teach children studying in class vi to xii in a recognized school however earlier the bed students were required to teach 40 lessons daily two lessons to schoolchildren as part of their training rather than interning with school we used to face problems in getting students attached with schools for their training of 40 lessons however now the duration has increased it would be extremely difficult to get such a large number of students enrolled in school for internship we would approach state government to interfere and attach bed students with schools for internship said prof nn pandey head of education department mjp rohilkhand university on varsity campus there are 210 seats in bed course besides 54 other affiliated colleges of mjp rohilkhand university in eight districts of rohilkhand zone are offering bed course the faculty members at department of education also claimed that ncte has not mentioned in its guidelines whether it would be paid or unpaid internship though students in corporate field and other such branches are paid remuneration during internship nothing is clear as of now if students would rigorously work and perform school duties they should be paid for this however there is another question that whether school management would be willing to pay students for it or not said pandey the other changes made in bed course is that ncte had made it compulsory that there should be 16 teachers against 50 students in a batch earlier the studentteacher ratio was eight teachers including seven lecturers and one head of department principal for 100 students apart from this the colleges offering bed course should have regular staff for physical education art drawing and music and performing art though private colleges will show on paper that they have appointed teachers as per the guidelines but the problem would be with government aided colleges as from where they would arrange full time teachers for physical education art drawing and music and performing art for appointment of teachers the state government would have to create post for it which has not been done until now said pandey