The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has concluded plans to review the curriculum of Colleges of Education (CoE) across the country.
He said that this was aimed at reducing the overloaded courses offered by students and to increase productivity of graduands.
Prof. Yakubu Auna, Provost, Niger state CoE, Minna, made this known during the 27th combined convocation press briefing in Minna.
Auna added that the measure would ensure that the students offer courses which they understand as against overloaded courses currently offered.
An average CoE student offers a minimum of 15 courses per semester and this development has increased the failure rate.
“College of Education students offer more courses than the university students, they are overloaded with courses.
“This is the reason why the NCCE is reviewing the curriculum in order to reduce the number of courses being offered by the students.
“When the new curriculum is out, the students will have cause to smile as they will no longer be over burdened with courses and the failure rate among the students will reduce,’’ he said.
He disclosed that 15,333 graduates of the college would be conferred with the Nigeria Certificate of Education and awards on Saturday.
The Provost said that 27 programmes of the college have received full accreditation, adding that the college would soon commence e-examinations.
“We are making efforts to rehabilitate the Computer Based Centre (CBT) of the college,’’ he said.
He decried inadequate funding of the college, saying that it has affected administration and projects execution at the institution.
Auna said that since the state government stopped allocating overheads to the college, its finances has dwindled.
According to him, “since the commencement of this administration, they have stopped giving overhead to our institution because of this we are unable to execute a lot of projects.
“We have to rely on money paid by students but we are also limited as most of these fees are user fees. Getting funds to execute projects has been very difficult.’’ (NAN)
