Dean’s Welcome Address

Welcome to the Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Benin City. Here in the Faculty of Education, we match conducive learning environment, fully functional laboratories, well-equipped classrooms, and standard up-to-date instructional facilities with research-proven cutting-edge programmes, robust practical and instructional experiences, and field practicums for grooming students from all walks of life. Our programmes are designed to accommodate the specific needs and abilities of all our students.

 

Over the years, employers in diverse professional fields have severally attested to the quality of our graduate outputs. This has further reassured and consolidated our commitment to providing the best programmes that will enable us produce competent and competitive graduates towards the actualization of Nigeria’s developmental initiatives.

 

The Faculty of Education, usually referred to as the “mother of all faculties”, currently houses eight (8) departments and runs a total of 31 programmes. Though plans are currently underway to create new departments that will bring the total number of departments to thirteen (13). In November 2023, 12 out of the 31 undergraduate programmes in the faculty underwent NUC accreditation exercise. Out of the 12 programmes, 10 got full accreditation while two received interim accreditation. This is one of the several attestations to the robustness of our programmes and the top-notch facilities we deploy to ensure that our teaming student population receive a well-designed and properly-implemented academic programme that will amply prepare them for the challenges of the 21st century labour market both within and outside the country

 

The undergraduate full-time student population in the faculty stood at five thousand, eight hundred and eighty-two (5,882) at the end of the 2022/2023 academic session. The highest of this number was from the Department of Educational Foundations (DEF) with a total of 1,193 students, followed by the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Technology (CIT) with a total of 1,048 students. Next was the Department of Educational Management (DEM) with a total of 972 students. This was followed by the Departments of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE), Health, Safety and Environmental Education (HSE), Educational Evaluation and Counselling Psychology (EECP, Adult and Non-Formal Education (ADE), and Human Kinetics and Sports Science (HKS) with populations of 694, 648, 512, 499, and 316 students respectively.

Prof. Osamede Kingsley Omorogiuwa

Dean, Faculty of Education (2022 – Date)

University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria