{"id":73699,"date":"2025-08-20T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73699"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:42:39","slug":"colleges-of-education-can-now-award-degrees-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/colleges-of-education-can-now-award-degrees-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges of Education Can Now Award Degrees -Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has approved a sweeping reform allowing Colleges of Education in Nigeria to independently award both National Certificate in Education (NCE), and degree programmes without university affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made Tuesday at the National Summit on Education in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the Minister of Education, Dr. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of State for Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, described the development as \u201ca historic milestone in Nigeria\u2019s educational advancement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reform follows the enactment of the Federal Colleges of Education (Establishment) Act No. 43 of 2023, which grants the institutions full legislative and operational authority to run dual academic programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Colleges of Education were restricted to offering only NCEs and had to rely on university affiliations to run degree programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Prof. Paulinus Chijioke Okwelle, hailed the move as \u201ctransformative,\u201d noting that it will widen access to teacher education, enhance institutional autonomy, and produce graduates with both NCE and B.Ed qualifications. He stressed that the reform will also help retain skilled educators within the system.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the House Committee on Federal Colleges of Education, Hon. Adamu Tanko, assured that degrees awarded by the institutions will be of equal value with those from traditional universities.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Education pledged sustained support through policy direction, technical guidance, and resource mobilisation to ensure smooth implementation of the reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Federal Government has approved a sweeping reform allowing Colleges of Education in Nigeria to independently award both National Certificate in Education (NCE), and degree programmes without university affiliation. The announcement was made Tuesday at the National Summit on Education in Abuja. Representing the Minister of Education, Dr. Tahir Mamman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73701,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73699\/revisions\/73701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}