Our Domestic and Global Connections

 

PCE is committed to building a rich network of meaningful educational partnerships in teaching, research and student mobility aimed to promote cross-cultural understanding and mutual respect, exchange of knowledge and experience, and global citizenship. Our tie-ups with external teacher education institutions and other organizations are guided by our core belief in and commitment to the need for mutual respect and benefit and friendship based on trust. Pursued through letters of agreement, memoranda of understanding and other pathways, we have a wide network of collaborations with institutions in Bhutan and outside in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States.   

 

Our domestic and global linkages help us and our partners to engage in mutual learning, co-creation of knowledge, and learning from each other’s best practice scenarios especially in teaching, student learning, research and cultural exchange. These efforts collectively contribute towards developing and raising the quality of teacher education curricula, pedagogical practices and the quality of student learning. Our current partners include:

 

• Bhutan Board for Certified Counsellors (Bhutan)
• Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy (Bhutan)
• Bhutan Institute of Wellbeing (Bhutan)
• Bhutan Olympic Committee (Bhutan)
• Edith Cowen University (Australia)
• Ministry of Education, Royal Government of Bhutan
• Ministry of Labour & Human Resources, Royal Government of Bhutan
• Naropa University (United States)
• National Commission for Women and Children (Bhutan)
• Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• Royal Education Council (Bhutan)
• Tarayana Foundation (Bhutan)
• UNFPA Bhutan
• UNICEF Bhutan
• University of Birmingham (UK)
• University College Leuven-Limburg (Belgium)
• University of Education Heidelberg (Germany)
• University Institute of Maia – ISMAI (Portugal)
• University of New England (Australia)
• University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
• Vrije University Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Vrije University Brussel (Belgium)

 PCE  Vision

 

A Leader in Educational Innovation and Progressive Growth Fostered by Excellence in Teaching, Research and Cultural Heritage.

 

 

 PCE  Mission

• To achieve excellence in teacher education, research, and learning technologies that are relevant to schools in Bhutan and the World. 
• To prepare teachers who are competent, passionate, committed, and well regarded practitioners and leaders in education. 
• To foster research informed educational innovation, knowledge creation and professional practices relevant to school education. 
• To offer academic programmes and research services that are responsive to the changing needs and aspirations of society. 
• To meet the lifelong learning needs of in-service teachers, educators and other educational professionals through professional learning       courses that are current, flexible, and rigorous. 
• To produce research that impacts education policy and contributes to the improvement of educational practices within PCE and in the            schools. 

 

 

PCE Objectives 

 

As one of the leading teacher education colleges in the country, Paro College of Education will make sustained efforts to:

 

• Be a preferred destination for Bhutanese and international students for teacher education and professional development. 
• Produce graduates who are recognized for their knowledge and competence by employers and higher education institutions                             within and outside the country. 
• Gain reputation for the quality and standard of its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and policy relevant research. 
• Be a model higher education institution where programmes, professional practices and services reflect the values of GNH. 
• Be known for its state-of-the-art facilities and comprehensive student support services. 
• Create a growth-oriented and enabling work culture and values that motivate existing staff and attract talents. 
• Be known as an institution driven by a culture of educational innovation and progressive growth. 
• Provide its students authentic immersion programmes for cultural knowledge and experience. 

 

 

PCE  Core Values

• Integrity
• Pursuit of Excellence
• Professionalism
• Leadership in Educational Change & Innovation
• Shared Values & Team Work
• Culture, Heritage and Sustainable Development

 

 Our Story

 

 

Paro College of Education is a constituent College of Royal University of Bhutan. Built on the lap of the stunningly beautiful and treasurable Rimpung Dzong, it was established on 4^th November 1975 as a pre-school care teacher training centre (TTC), in the current Rinpung campus in Paro, a place known for its rich history, culture and Buddhist heritage. Its founding as a premier teacher training establishment symbolized the Royal Government of Bhutan’s commitment and effort to develop a self-reliant and sustainable education system for the kingdom. The launching of TTC demonstrated yet another of the Royal Government’s bold but wise step in its development journey. On the day of its founding, TTC had only eight female students and a demonstration school.

 

The College has two main campuses – in Rinpung and Nangka Choeling. The latter was inaugurated by Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck on 18^th November 1999. TTC was renamed National Institute of Education (NIE) in 2000 with the introduction of its first bachelor’s programme in education. Following its merger with the Royal University of Bhutan established by a Royal Decree in June 2003, NIE in 2006 became Paro College of Education.

 

Today the College offers diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate and Masters programmes in the high priority areas of early childcare and development, primary education, secondary education in Dzongkha the national language, health and physical education, inclusive education, and educational leadership studies. The programmes are taught through two pathways – fulltime and part-time modes. PCE has a team of academic staff who are active in research and provides policy and programmatic support to government agencies and civil society.

WELCOME TO PCE 

As a constituent College of Royal University of Bhutan, Paro College of Education (PCE) is positioned to provide Bhutanese society the high quality teacher education and training it deserves. As the leading and only teacher education institution in Bhutan that provides undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in a range of educational development areas such as early childcare, creative arts and music, primary education, health and physical culture, special education, and educational leadership, PCE is proud to be a driving force in the country’s development effort. We play a critical role in the education, training and continuous professional and leadership development of teachers in Bhutan.

 

At PCE, we offer programmes that reinforce the mutuality and interconnection between theory and practice, thus giving our students a wealth of experience they will find relevant and worthwhile in their professional settings and circumstances. Our Masters programmes give students sufficient training and practical experience in educational inquiry by engaging in practice-based, school-based and action-oriented research projects. We provide our international students rich academic and research experiences and an abundance of opportunities to understand and appreciate Bhutanese society, culture and way of life.

 
PCE is committed to providing our teachers and school leaders the knowledge, competencies and resilience they need in today’s fast moving, ever changing and innovative educational terrain.   

 

PCE’s academic staff are active researchers and they provide policy and programmatic support to the Ministry of Education, other agencies in government, and civil society.

I am delighted to welcome you to PCE and thank you for your continued interest to visit us and see what we do. 

 

Trashi Delek.

 

                                                     Dorji Thinley, PhD

http://vle.pce.edu.bt/

Professional biography

རྟ་མགྲིན་དཔལ་འབྱོར་འདི་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ སློབ་དཔོན་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་འབད་ཚུ་གི་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་ཨིན། ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༣ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ ནང་པའི་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཚུ་ནང་ཟབ་མོ་ལྟ་བའི་གཞུང་དང་རྒྱ་ཆེན་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་གྱི་རིག་གཞུང་ཚུ་གི་སློབ་སྟོན་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན། སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༤ ལུ་ འབྲས་ལྗོངས༌རྒྱལ༌པོ༌ དབང་ཕྱུག་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གྲུབ་དབང་པད་མ་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་ལུ་ ཕྱི་ནང་གི་ཤེས་ཚད་ཡོད་མི་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་དགོ་པའི་ཞུ་བ་ཕུལ་ཡོད་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྦས་གནས་འབྲས་མོ་ལྗོངས་ གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཕོ་བྲང་དགོན་པ་ལུ་འགྱུར་ཏེ་ཡོད་པའི་དགོན་སྡེ་ནང་ ལོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་རིང་ སློབ་པ་ཐོས་བསམ་དང་བྱ་བ་ལས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་གང་དྲག་འབད་ཞུ་ཡོད་པ་གི་མ་དོ་བར་ ཨོ་རྒྱན་གུ་རུ་རིན་ཆེའི་རྣམ་སྤྲུལ་ འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ་མཆོག་གི་ རིགས་བདག་གི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ལྷ་མོ་ མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་ ཚེ་རིང་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་མཆོག་ལུ་ཡང་ ལྷག་བསམ་དག་པའི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཞུ་ནིའི་གི་གོ་སྐབས་ཐོབ་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་རང་གཞན་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ཐུགས་སྨོན་ཚུ་ཡང་ཞུ་ནིའི་སྐལ་བ་ཐོབ་ནུག སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༦ ལུ་ སེམས་རྟོགས་ཁ་ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་སྐད་ཡིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལོ་གཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཁ་འབག་གི་སློབ་སྟོན་པ་འབད་ཕྱག་ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་དང་ སྤྱི་ལོ ༢༠༠༦ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་ཞི་གཡོག་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་བཙགས་འཐུ་ཆོས་རྒྱུགས་ལས་མཐར་འཁྱོལ་ནུག སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༧ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ རྫོང་ཁ་གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་འོག་མའི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་མཇུག་བསྡུས་ཡོདཔ་དང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༨ ལུ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་དང་ཤེས་རིག་ལྷན་ཁག་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ལེགས་བཤད་པ་གདམ་འཐུ་འབད་ནུག ཁོ་གིས་སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ ལམ་སྲོལ་དྲུང་ཆེན་ རྩོམ་རིག་འགོ་འདྲེན་པ་ སྙན་ཆའི་མཁོ་ཆས་བདག་འཛིན་པ་ཚུ་གི་འགན་འགུར་འབག་ཡོདཔ་དང་

དེ་ལས་རྫོང་གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་འོག་མའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ།མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌འཛིན༌སྐྱོང༌ཚོགས༌པའི༌འཐུས་མི།མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌དངུལ༌རྩིས༌ཚོགས༌པའི༌འཐུས་མི།མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌སློབ༌རིག༌ཚོགས༌ཆུང༌གི༌འཐུས་མི་དྲུང་ཆེན། མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌མི༌སྟོབས༌ཚོགས༌པའི༌འཐུས༌མི༌འབད༌ཕྱག་ཞུ་ནུགན་ད་ལྟོ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌ཆོས༌རྒྱུགས༌བཀོད༌ཚོགས༌ཀྱི༌འཐུས༌མི༌དྲུང༌ཆེན། མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌རྫོང་ཁའི་བཀོད༌ཚོགས༌ཀྱི༌ཁྲི་འཛིན། མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌ཤེས༌རིག༌ཚོགས༌ཆུང༌གི༌འཐུས་མི།མཐོ༌རིམ༌སློབ༌གྲྭའི༌བརྟན་ཞུ་འགོ་འདྲེན་པ་དང་ རྫོང་ཁ་གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་གོང་མའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་འབད་ཕྱག་ཞུ་བའི་བསྒང་འདུག་ཟེར་ཞུ་ནི་ཨིན། 

Email: tandinpeljor.pce@rub.edu.bt

Professional biography

 

 

Mek Bir Rai is an ICT Technical Associate at Paro College of Education. He joined the college in July 2010 after completing a Diploma in Information Management System (DIMS) from the Royal Institute of Management, Thimphu. He served as ICT Technical Associate until he underwent internal transfer from ICT Unit to Student Record Centre in April 2017. He worked as a Student Record Officer for three years until April 2020. Currently, he is working as an ICT Technical Associate in the ICT Unit. He underwent a few short-term training and has experience in ICT and Record management.

 

Email: mekbrai.pce@rub.edu.bt