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Tamil  Nadu is the seat of Higher  Education in India, which offers a number  of general as well as  professional courses. It also pays attention to  the spreading of  elementary, secondary and higher education and training of the teachers  involved in these programs. There is naturally  a demand for teacher  educators in this state who can hold the reign of  the teacher training  institutes located across the region.
The Government of Tamil Nadu enacted Act  No.(33) of 2008 to provide for the establishment and incorporation of  Teachers Education University  in the State of Tamil Nadu for promoting  excellence in teachers  education. Further the Act came into effect from  1.7.2008 by a Gazette  Notification issued in G.O.M.S.256, Higher  Education (K2) Department,  dated 25.6.2008.
Dr.T.Padmanabhan, Dean, Department of Education,   Annamalai University was appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of  this  new University. Dr.A.R.Veermani, Professor and Head, Department of   Economics and Officiating Registrar, Thiruvalluvar University was   appointed as the first Registrar of this University. Dr. M. Jayakumar   was appointed as the first Controller of Examinations of this new   University.  
The  various objectives of the University  are to provide high quality  education, monitor Teacher Education as  approved by National Council  for Teacher Education at all levels in the  State, to develop research  facilities in Teacher Education; to find out  ways and means to identify  innovative courses in Teacher Education; to  institute degrees and  other academic distinction in Teacher Education  approved by NCTE; to  confer degrees and other academic distinction on  persons who have  carried out research in University or in any other  centre or  institutions recognized by the University under conditions  prescribed  for Teacher Education; to confer honorary degrees in teacher  education  in the prescribed manner and under conditions prescribed; to  conduct  and organize seminars,  workshops and symposia in promoting  Teacher Education with a view to  offering programs in the latest field  and to develop the extension  activities. The University is very much  focused to promote quality in  Education and to standardize the system of  operation.
The  University is in pursuit of  excellence in Promoting human values for  social harmony and to make  colleges of education excel through  innovative teaching, research and  extension activities.