Brief History of the Faculty
The Faculty of Education which is primarily for the preparation of teachers at the Graduate and Diploma levels introduced its first set of undergraduate in 1983/84 session. The faculty traditionally had four Departments namely: Department of Educational Foundations and Managements, Curriculum Studies, Guidance and Counselling and the Institute of Education. The Institute of Education was set up in 1987/88 session for in-service/refresher courses, seminars, workshops; it was also designed to carry out diploma programmes in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Sandwich Programme for serving teacher and to render other services to the schools and ministries of Education at both Federal and State Levels.
In 2016/2017 session, the former Curriculum Studies Department was split into the Departments of Arts and Language Education, Science Education and Vocational and Technical Education. Similarly the former Departments of Educational Foundations and Management was also split into the departments of Educational Management, Social Science Education and Human Kinetics and Health Education. The Institute of Education also became a full-fledge department but now in charge of Postgraduate Diploma in Education Programme.
The Departments in the faculty jointly provide undergraduate courses leading to the award of B.A. (Ed), B.Sc (Ed) and B. Ed at both Regular and Sandwich bases with specialization in the following areas:
(a). English, French, Yoruba, History and Religious Studies B.A. (Ed)
(b). Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Basic Science B.Sc (Ed), Computer Science, Agricultural Science B.Sc (Ed).
(c.). Accounting, Economics, Geography, Social Studies and Political Science, Educational Management and Adult Education B.Sc (Ed) and B.A (Ed) respectively.
(d). Guidance and Counselling, Vocational and Technical Education, Science.
In summary, the Departments in the Faculty of Education are:
- Department of Adult Education
- Department of Arts and Language Education
- Department of Educational Management
- Department of Guidance & Counselling
- Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education
- Institute of Education
- Department of Science Education
- Department of the Social Science Education
- Department of Vocational and Technical Education
There have been fourteen (14) substantive Deans elected since the inception of the Faculty of Education in 1983. The office of Sub-Dean was instituted in 1992 for one year renewable for another one year. Above sixteen Sub-Deans have served for either one or two years since then. The Current Dean and Sub-Dean are Professor M.A. Ayeni and Dr. O. J. Aborisade respectively.