Professional Staff
Research Services
- Mr. Sonam Pelrab, Assistant Research Officer
Finance
- Ms. Sangay Choden, Finance Officer
ICT Unit
- Mr. Indra Prasad Gotamey, Assistant ICT Officer
Programme Leaders and Unit Heads
Primary Education Studies
Dzongkha Education Studies
The Centre for Early Childhood Studies is a unique workplace early childhood care and development centre in Paro College of Education providing inclusive preschool learning opportunities to the children aged three to five years of the staff of the college and community. The centre provides a high-quality culturally and contextually relevant preschool programme to children and also serves as the demonstration and training sites for the faculty, student teachers studying early childhood and inclusive education courses, and early childhood facilitators and inclusive education teacher aide working in the community.
Cultural Experience
Giving students the best of cultural experience is at the heart of PCE’s academic and extracurricular programmes. The College provides a rich context and ambiance for exploring culture and developing deep understanding and appreciation of Bhutanese culture and heritage. Students get opportunities to learn traditional Bhutanese music, dances and songs through individual or group performances and small and large public events on the campus and outside. Beginning July 2020, they will also be provided opportunities to not only learn traditional Bhutanese music in a formal academic setting but will also have access to learn music in a studio setting. The College also provides lots of opportunity for students to develop their spiritual interests through mindfulness practice and meditation in formal as well as informal settings. Each semester the College organizes religious discourses and and well-designed programmes of instructions and empowerments in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism. Cultural events are organized throughout the semester where students have the opportunity to develop new talents or enhance existing ones. International students participate in these events. Special programmes of cultural experience and immersion are also organized for international students such as visits to special historical sites and cultural processes and interaction with culture custodians. Students are encouraged to participate in all the programmes that the College organizes and gain rich and meaningful experience from these.
Sport & Recreation
Paro College of Education has a soccer field, an outdoor basketball court, indoor basketball court, a futsal field, a gymnasium an indoor fitness centre and other facilities to engage the students in a variety of sports activities for their physical health and wellbeing. The College values wholesome development of the students and organises a number of sporting activities which are crucial for their mental health and emotional wellbeing as well.
Dining on Campus
Students living in shared rooms without kitchen and cooking facilities in the dormitories can avail meal services (breakfast, lunch and dinner) at the Common Student Dining (CSD). Meals are also available on weekends. Students and staff who wish to take meals from the CSD can buy meal coupons before the meal. Some of the dormitories on campus have kitchen and cooking facilities. In these self-catering hostels, students have the option to cook their own meals. But if they still choose to avail meal facilities at the Common Student Dining, the can enroll for the meals at the CSD and pay their monthly meal service fees.
Inquiries about meals may be sent to the Student Service Officers and the staff in charge of student dining:
Mr. Tempa Gyeltshen
Residence Coordinator ( for men )
Mobile: 17760197
Email: tempagyeltshen.pce@rub.edu.bt
Ms. Choki Yuden
Mobile: 17711010
Residence Coordinator ( for women )
Email: chokiyuden.pce@rub.edu.bt
Mr. Wangchen
Mobile: 17542664
Mess In charge
Email: wangchen.pce@rub.edu.bt
CERD- Centre for Educational Research and Development
The Centre for Educational Research and Development is situated at Paro College of Education, Paro. The establishment of the Centre was initiated by the Prime Minister Lyonpo Sangay Needup, the then Minister of Education. The institution was conceived as a result of the rapid growth, both in extent and scope, the Bhutanese education system had undergone since its humble beginnings. It was recognized that there was need for an institution which could meet, in strong research terms, the need for an on-going review of processes, policies and programs within the Ministry.
CERD was consecrated on April 19, 2001 by the Venerable Lam Neten of Paro Dratshang in the presence of the Honourable Secretary of Education, Dasho Pema Thinley and other officials of the Ministry of Education and the National Institute of Education, Paro. The founding Director was T. S. Powdyel, the former Minister of Education in the first elected government of Bhutan. The Centre is now in its twenty third year of operation.
Today the centre, as well as carrying out research, coordinates research activities for the colleges of education, facilitates research links with Ministry of Education and other stake holders, publishes research and scholarly papers and provides consultancy and professional community support services within the Royal University of Bhutan family and Ministry of Education.
Vision: Excel in educational research
Mission: