Wednesday 26 March 2014

Dr. C.P. Sreekantan Nair awarded the 'Dr. K. Sivadasan Pillai Memorial Award for Academic Excellence – 2013'

Dr. C.P. Sreekantan Nair, Former Principal Farook Training College, has been awarded the Dr. K. Sivadasan Pillai Memorial Award for Academic Excellence – 2013 in the inauguration session on the International Seminar on Institutional Interventions To bridge Competency Gulf in an e- World (IIBCGeW 2014), organized by N.S.S. Training College, Pandalam

CTE Kerala State Centre has instituted the Dr. K. Sivadasan Pillai Memorial Award for Academic Excellence to honour the pioneers of Education in the country for their outstanding achievement in the field of Teacher Education as well as in the public domain. This award is instituted in the name of the great educationalist Dr. K. Sivadasan Pillai, who was the founder Chairman of CTE in the state and the pioneer of various Academic activities in the country and abroad. This Award constituted in 2008, after the sad demise of Dr. Pillai, consists of a cash award of Rs.10,001/- and a Citation.

The former recipients of the award are
1) Dr. N. Vedamani Manuel, Former Professor and Head, Department of Education; Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Kerala, and UNESCO expert (2008)
2) Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair, Former Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottyam; Professor and Head, Department of Education, Calicut University and Faculty Member, Department of Education, University of Kerala (2009)
3) Dr. K. Soman,  Former Professor and Head, Department of Education, Calicut University; and Former Commissioner of Education, Government of Kerala (2010)
4) Dr. Dev Raj Vij (Jalandhar, Punjab), National President, Council for Teacher Education (CTE) (2011)

5) Dr. R. Sukumaran Nair, former Professor and Head of the Department of Education, Calicut University (2012)

International Seminar On Institutional Interventions To bridge Competency Gulf in an e- World (IIBCGeW 2014) Day 2. March 25, 2014