The prosperity of a nation depends on its enlightened human resources, which depends on the quality of education. Quality of education depends upon quality of teachers, who in turn depend on quality of teacher education. Realizing this importance, Department of Education, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University has been functioning from the year 2006, with the aim of providing quality teacher education. The Department functions with two fold objectives - producing committed teachers, who will be competent to teach subjects of their specialization at secondary and higher secondary levels, and serve as teacher educators with professionalism, academic leadership and research acumen. The Department comprises 4 permanent faculties and 3 temporary faculties who are working for the wellbeing and development of the Department.

Vision

Promoting excellence in teacher education for creating a humane and an enlightened society.

Mission

• To conduct teaching, research and outreach programmes to enrich teacher education
• To provide quality and inclusive education, especially for the rural, the unreached, and the differently-abled
• To create an academic environment that values intellectual curiosity, pursuit of knowledge, academic freedom and integrity
• To equip the teacher educators as instruments for socio economic and cultural development
• To prepare the teacher educators as planners / policy makers / curriculum designers / prodigious researchers to build the nation into bravura.