Sohan Lal DAV College of Education (IASE), Ambala City is a premier institute of education catering to the needs of Northern India in Teacher Education. This esteemed institution was established at Lahore in 1939 and was rehabilitated at Ambala after independence and later handed over to the DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi. Since then this institution has carved a niche in the field of teacher education by producing teachers of great repute. The college strives to maintain the ideals of its founder Rai Bahadur Sohan Lal and to articulate the ancient Vedic Wisdom in the modern context.
Lala Bhagwan Das was the first Principal of the college at Ambala who was succeeded by Dr. R. L. Ahuja (1957-64), Shri A.R. Sharma (1964-74), Dr. V.B. Taneja (1975-77), Dr. V.K. Kohli (1977-91) and Dr. D.P. Asija (1991-2007). Dr. Vivek Kohli is admirably heading the institution since January 1, 2008.
It is now a Post-Graduate College of Education, having B.Ed. & M.Ed Courses, affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. The college has the credit of being approved and recognized by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), a statutory body established by an Act of Parliament. It also enjoys the proud privilege of being awarded A+ Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with 93% marks. The college has received an ISO 9001-2000 certification. Beside this, the college now enjoys the status of an Institute of Advanced Study in Education (IASE) upgraded by Ministery of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. Recently the UGC has also selected this college for various programmes under Innovative scheme. The UGC has recently established a ’Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies’ in this college. The college successfully competed in the nation wide contest for the best integration of Technology in Education for the year 2005 and was adjudged as National Winner for which His Excellency General (Retd.) SF Rodrigus PVSM, VSM Governor of Punjab & Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh graciously awarded the prize and presented the citation.
The college aims to attain complete autonomy in its structure and functioning with the formation of Deemed University of Pedagogical Sciences in the near future. |