Education Minister Susil Premajayanth speaking at a ceremony organised to handover letters of appointment to 199 Tamil medium teachers who passed out from National Colleges of Education said that the allowance paid to the diploma teacher trainees of NCOE would be doubled next year and he had already had discussion with the Treasury over this issue.

NCOE admits around 3,000 A level qualified based on their Z scores to be trained as teachers. They are now paid Rs. 1,500 as an allowance per month during the first two years of residential training and Rs. 2,500 per month during the third year of internship.