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10. National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna

• Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE)

Contact e-mail: info@nti.edu.ng; ntikad@yahoo.com      Tel: +234 62 887 873; +234 62  887 780; +234 62 290 352

The National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna was established in 1976 to provide in-service education for teachers through the Open and Distance Learning System (ODLS). As stipulated in Degree No.7 (now Act No.7) of the then Federal Military Government of Nigeria (1978). The Institute is charged with the responsibility of providing courses of Instruction leading to the development, upgrading, and certification of teachers as specified in the relevant syllabus, using Distance Education Techniques.

In its desire to fulfill its Mandate, the Institute decided to put in place programmes that aim at upgrading the quality of teachers especially at the basic education level. The introductory programmmes ran then were, the Grade Two (GRD II), Pivotal Teachers Training Programme (PTTP), and Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE). The Ministry of Education is specially appreciative of the Institute’s grassroots approach to teacher education through its widely acknowledged and commendable distance learning system.

After several years of running the Grade II, PTTP, and NCE programmes, the Institute deems it appropriate to upgrade the academic and professional qualifications of teachers to the degree level. In order to greatly raise the quality of teaching and learning in schools, consequently, the Institute has embarked on offering degree programmes, in affiliation with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). In its characteristic nature as a reputable institution with the singular goal of promoting teacher education nationwide, the NTI introduced Advanced (AD) and Postgraduate Diploma in Education programmes specifically designed to further equip the trained, serving teachers and offer pedagogical training to the army of untrained graduate teachers that abound in our school system today. The AD and PGDE programmes are affiliated to a University of choice in each geopolitical zone of the Federation. University of Ilorin is selected to moderate all the NTI PGDE/ADE centres in the North Central zone. The students of NTI programmes have the real chance of benefiting  from its rich course modules that are written by seasoned educationists and educational administrators that are drawn from our Universities and Colleges of Education nationwide. The National Teachers’ Institute Headquarters is situated in Kaduna, Kaduna State and  headed by a Director- General and Chief Executive. The Institute has  six Departments with their Directors. The Departments are as follows;

Registry, headed by Registrar, Bursary, headed by Bursar, Field Operation and Students Services Department, Academic Records Department, Examination Department, Quality Assurance Department. NTI has Zonal and liaison offices headed by Zonal Coordinators, next is the State Offices, headed by State Coordinators. The State Coordinator, in collaboration with other staff members, set up a Study Centre, which is headed by a Centre Manager with a Master’s Degree as  Minimum Qualification. He directs course facilitators who he works with. The Course Facilitators are drawn from various Universities and Colleges of Education in the State of location.

11. Peacock College of Education, Jalingo, Taraba State

• Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE)

Contact e-mail: rufusmelaiye@gmail.com      Tel: +234 810 995 8478

OBJECTIVES

The College was specifically conceived/established for the following reasons:-

• Giving back to society a little from the enormous contributions it has made towards making members attain their various achievements in life;
  • Helping to generate employment opportunities in the State;
• Providing employment to and tapping from the wealth of experience of Members –  most of whom are on retirement- instead of allowing them to waste away – and in the process, enable them earn additional incomes, either as staffers of the proposed college or from the profits expected to accrue to it;
• To help in bridging the huge educational gap especially,  by providing the necessary skilled teachers to reduce the dearth of teaching staff in the State’s Primary Secondary Schools;
• To key into the current efforts towards establishing a public/private partnership in the socio-economic development of the country.
• To add to the aggregate stock of capital assets in the State.

Incorporation

After all the foregoing, the College was formally incorporated with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) as a Limited Liability Company. Approval has been granted. For the purpose of meeting statutory requirements of incorporation, the under listed were registered as the Pioneer Directors of the Company/College:

• Senator A. A Ibrahim – Chairman 
• Mal. M.A Jalingo – Director
• Dr. Sale Waziri – Director
• Dr. Tukur Aliyu – Director
• Mal. M. B Aliyu – Director
• Alh. Abubakar Sa’ad – Registrar/Secretary

Organizational Structure

The Board of Directors

This is the Body that represents the Share–holders and is the highest authority in the administration of the College

The Governing Council

The Council is currently made up of fourteen (14) members representing various interest/segments of society – religion, gender, geopolitical zones, the Academia. Among them are University Professors, Doctors, Seasoned Administrators, Industrialists, and Engineers.

The Council is in charge of evolving and implementing all policies and programmes of the College

The Management

The Management is responsible for the day- to-day administration of the College subject to policy direction of the Council.

Members of the management are:

1. The Provost
2. The Deputy Provost
3. The Librarian
4. The Bursar 
5. The Registrar/Secretary
6. The Academic Board

This is the Body responsible for managing all Academic Matters of the College from admissions, through teaching/ research, to examination and graduation. Members of the Board are:

1. The Provost
2. The Deputy Provost
3. The Librarian
4. Deans of all Schools
5. All Heads of Academic Departments.
6. Directors of MIS, Education Resource Centre, Consultancy Services and Academic Planning
7. The Registrar/ Secretary

CURRENT PROGRAMMES/SCHOOLS

The College presently has Four (4) Schools each headed by a Dean:

1. School of Education;
2. School of Science/Vocation Education;
3. School of Arts and Social Sciences;
4. School of Continuing Education;

INFRASTRUCTURE/ FACILITIES AVAILABLE

The College has the following infrastructure/facilities to make teaching/learning most convenient:

1. 25 fully furnished classrooms including 3 large Halls for General Studies and Education Courses;
2. 6 laboratories – Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Home Economics, Computer, and Mathematics;
3.  Library – both Physic and E-Library;
4. 200 seater CBT Centre
5. 2 College Buses
6. A Medical Corner
7. A functional Bore-hole in additions to connection to the Metropolitan water lines;
8. A Dedicated 200KVA/33KVA Electricity line
9. A standby Generator
10. Computerization/ paperless College – in line with the philosophy of a globalized world as a universal village,

 Affiliation

The College offers Undergraduate and Post Graduate Diploma Programmes in Education in affiliation with the University of Ilorin, Ilorin for the latter and Taraba State University, Jalingo for the former.

12. Raodah Centre for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Ikirun, Osun State

• Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies

Contact e-mail:  Tel: +234 803 852  218

13. Seliat Amoke Islamic Centre, Offa

• Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies

Contact e-mail: selia.amokeschool@gmail.com  . diplomaseliaamokeoyawoyeislami@gmail.com    Tel: +2348027763362 or 2348035063915

Seliat Amoke Islamic Centre was established in 1995 with a view to providing an avenue for adult Muslims who were not opportune during their young ages to acquire the knowledge of Al-Quran and other relevant education to the general practice of Islamic faith, so that they could explore the opportunity and catch up.

The founder of the centre, Professor Mohammad Jamiu Mosobalaje Oyawoye and few members of his associate constitute the first set of students of the centre. The founder himself was the Naqeeb (Captain) of his class and graduated as the first set of the Centre.

Initially, the Centre started in an informal way with a limited number of students and resource person(s) as their teachers but God out of His grace graduated the centre to a formal one. Today, the Centre is registered with the Kwara State Ministry of Education as one of the private Islamiyyah Schools in Kwara State. The Centre turns out hundreds of graduates in almost every academic year. As at present, the Centre has a population of about 943 students with 410 in the children category, 498 in the adult category and 35 in the Diploma unit.

Introduction

There is evidently a dearth of graduates of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Nigerian society. Though a number of universities have degree programms in the twin disciplines, however the number of students admitted has been on the decline as a result of inability of many candidates to meet the requirements for admission. There is also a dire need to produce more teachers of Arabic and lslamic studies at primary and secondary school levels in Nigeria for optimum realization of the goals of inculcating Quranic knowledge and enhancing Islamic education in the general practices of Islamic faith and way of life. This is particularly with focus on Offa Muslim community where there is no single Arabic institution running diploma course at present.

The Diploma programme encompasses Arabic as a language and Islamic studies. Its contents are higher than the G.C.E A-LEVEL, SISCE and IJMB standard. It also includes courses in English language which would have been adequately remedied at the end of the course by any candidate with deficiency in English at the school certificate G.C.E O-LEVEL or their equivalent. However, other courses like ICT in Arabic, Introduction to phonetics as well as Lexicography are considered.

The Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies would be accepted as direct entry qualification for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Arabic, Islamic studies, Education/ Arabic and Education/ Islamic studies on the condition that the candidate possesses five credits in SSCE GCE O-LEVEL SISCE in relevant courses including English language, Mathematics , Arabic and Islamic studies.

 Philosophy

There are particular characteristics which distinguish Arabic from other disciplines because it is a language which has been studied and developed by Nigerians for eight centuries before the study of other foreign languages. Its subject matter continues to elicit the interest of millions of Nigerians who study it without depending on government support. The legacies of skill, quality and accomplishment left behind by such high profile Nigerian scholars or writers in Arabic serve as a source material for historians and other cognate disciplines in the arts, social sciences and education. This also serves as a stimulus for students wishing to learn it as an academic discipline in the university and as an addition to those who study it out of sheer interest in a foreign language. It also provides diagnostic categories at different layers of language which enrich Applied linguistics. The reciprocal relationship of Arabic with other disciplines is bound to positively influence the student of the subject and the language has also been greatly influenced by many Nigerians languages through convergence of lexical items through borrowing,

Objectives

This programme is designed with the following aims and objectives

a). To provide competent teachers of Arabic and Islamic studies for primary and secondary schools under the 6-3- 3-4 system of education in Nigeria, particularly in Offa Metropolis and its environs.

b). To equip such teachers with standard Arabic and advanced knowledge of Islam to meet the challenges of a contemporary society.

c) To afford the people of the universities within their immediate environment and catchment area and the opportunity of tapping from the Arabic and Islamic intellectual resources available in our society

d) To serve the interest of the wider community in the leaming of Arabic as a living world language and of Islamic studies as a religion which governs the lives of a large population of Nigerians and

e) To prepare suitable candidates for direct entry admissions into the university.

14. University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin

• Postgraduate Diploma in Community Health Education (PGD-CHE)

Contact e-mail:          Tel:  +234 904 656 5598 and +234 803 585 6594

15. University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin

• Postgraduate Diploma in Health Information Management (PGD-HIM)

             Contact e-mail uithpgshim@gmail.com   Tel: +234 703 329 4319

16. University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin

• Postgraduate Diploma in Post Basic Nursing

Contact e-mail    Tel: +234 810 099

17. Osun State Polytechnic, Iree

• Undergraduate programmes

Contact e-mail Tel: +234 803 362 3881 and +234 803 409 8617