According to Rabindranath Tagore, a Noble Prize Winner of India, "a teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame." The Thirteenth year book of the Department of the Superintendence on social Change and education mentioned social change and a too brief pre-service education as reasons for in-service training of teachers. It serves those teachers who wish to 'upgrade' themselves. It helps those who wish to prepare for another type of position. Besides, it increases teachers' knowledge or skill. Teacher education course is being recognized as a continuous process, coextensive with teaching courses for existing teachers on a mass scale in addition to pre service education. In service training program is organized to orient new comers or to orient/refresh the old ones. There are many functions of in-service training programme viz. (a) to promote the continuous improvement of the teachers (b) to eliminate deficiencies in the background (c) to release creative activities etc. The existing teachers of higher education are offered training by different government and non-government agencies. The University Grant Commission has set up Academic staff colleges in each university. If organizes orientation programme for the new comers and refresher programme for experienced teachers. The objective is to equip the teachers with the new methods and trends of higher education. It also emphasizes the use of modern technology in imparting effective teaching. The Ministry of Human Resource Development organizes short-term courses for the existing teachers. It helps the teachers a lot and prepares them for research. The Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat envisions to generate and to provide ideas and paradigms for achieving excellence in education. It imparts innovative teaching, learning, research and extension activities through educational technology. Education is a life-long process. The teacher should continue to learn throughout his life. No man or woman should decide to teach unless he or she is determined to learn because a true teacher is a student all through his life. The idea of life-long education is the key-stone of the learning society. The Ministry of Education in England States, "the hall mark of a good teacher is that he is himself always learning and always developing his knowledge and understanding of children and young people. In short, a teacher should be a person who, because of his attitude to knowledge, to ideas, to his fellows and life generally is better educated today then he was yesterday and will, tomorrow better educated than he is today."
