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Education
Bihar Opens Over 200 New Colleges, Plans Oxford Training for Teachers
✍️ The Indian Express
🗓 15 Sep 2026, 06:16 PM
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The Bihar government has inaugurated more than 200 new colleges and is now arranging teacher‑training programmes at Oxford University to boost instructional quality.
Bihar has recently added over 200 new colleges to its higher‑education network, a move aimed at expanding access to university‑level studies across the state. The institutions, spread over urban and rural districts, are expected to accommodate thousands of additional students.
In a parallel effort to improve teaching standards, the state education department has secured a training programme for its teachers at Oxford University. The initiative will expose selected faculty members to contemporary pedagogical methods and curriculum design practices used in leading global universities.
Officials say the Oxford stint is part of a broader strategy to raise the quality of instruction in the newly opened colleges, ensuring that increased capacity is matched by competent teaching staff. Participants will return with insights that can be adapted to Bihar’s classroom contexts.
The government plans to roll out the training in phases, beginning later this year, and to integrate the learnings into teacher‑development policies statewide. The combined push of infrastructure expansion and faculty upskilling aims to strengthen Bihar’s higher‑education ecosystem over the coming years.
In a parallel effort to improve teaching standards, the state education department has secured a training programme for its teachers at Oxford University. The initiative will expose selected faculty members to contemporary pedagogical methods and curriculum design practices used in leading global universities.
Officials say the Oxford stint is part of a broader strategy to raise the quality of instruction in the newly opened colleges, ensuring that increased capacity is matched by competent teaching staff. Participants will return with insights that can be adapted to Bihar’s classroom contexts.
The government plans to roll out the training in phases, beginning later this year, and to integrate the learnings into teacher‑development policies statewide. The combined push of infrastructure expansion and faculty upskilling aims to strengthen Bihar’s higher‑education ecosystem over the coming years.