colleges of education about to come to an end said THE Federal Government, has proposed a plan on Thursday

THE Federal Government, has proposed a plan on
Thursday to scrap colleges of education and put it to an end
(abolish ).the Nigeria Certificate in Education
(NCE) as the basic things needed for teaching
in secondary and primary schools in Nigeria. The
Minister of State for Education, Mr Kenneth
Gbagi, said this in Abuja whan he was inaugurating
the technical committee on the
establishment of six new federal universities
and the future of colleges of education,
polytechnics, and mono-discipline
universities in Nigeria. And
the 11-man technical committee is headed
by the Executive Secretary, National
Universities Commission (NUC), Professor
Julius Okojie, while the Chief Executive
Officer and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of
Education, is to serve as the secretary. The
committee has up till Monday, next week, to
submit its report.
The minister said: “We are on the border of
whether we should stage out the colleges
of education or upgrade them to degree-
awarding institutions or convert them to
purely technical schools. One of the
universities we are going to set up now will
be to train teachers for the upper echelon of
education,” he also said “it is no longer
fashionable for us to have this teacher
training stuff with colleges of education. So,
come up with an in-depth arrangement as
to what we intend to do.”
Mr Kenneth disclosed that President
Goodluck Jonathan had directed that the
committee be set up to work out modalities
for the establishment of the proposed six
universities, one in each of the six
geopolitical zones in Nigeria, especially in
states that do not have such federal
institutions