The Department of Education is tasked with the responsibility of training well-qualified, competent, disciplined and all-rounded educational instructors and administrators who can create opportunities and address the various emerging issues facing our society. The department endeavors to promote academic excellence and holistic transformation of prospective teachers for the development of humanity.
The department’s academic programmes are engineered to generate, develop, preserve and share knowledge for efficient and effective management of the educational sector. The programmes also contrive training and research through nurturing of intellectual culture that integrates theory with practice. Our undergraduate programmes provides a unique experience of teacher preparation that provides sound content knowledge, educational foundation knowledge, teaching skills, pedagogical theory, professional skills and experiences that shape reflective practice of professional teachers.
In the department we have dedicated, hardworking and passionate staff who work as a team to achieve the departmental objectives. The staff also play a key role in the mentorship of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the department. The quality of training in our department is sufficient and commendable as evidenced by the high number of our graduates absorbed in various educational institutions and other sectors of the economy.
The Department’s activities will be guided by the following core values: