FCT College of Education, Zuba

FCT College of Education, Zuba is a public teacher-training college in Zuba, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It was established to provide quality teacher education for the Nigerian school system, particularly the training of teachers in the sciences and Nigerian languages for primary schools. Its mission is the training of teachers with high morale and academic excellence for primary and post-primary institutions, with emphasis on the sciences and on vocational and technical subjects, in the FCT and the nation and in line with international standards.

Academic programmes are organised in five schools: the School of Education (including Adult and Non-Formal Education and the Post Graduate Diploma in Education), the School of Sciences, the School of Arts and Social Sciences, the School of Languages, and the School of Vocational and Technical Education, together with the School of Early Childhood Care, Primary, Adult and Non-Formal Education.

The School of Sciences offers double-major NCE combinations such as Biology/Chemistry, Biology/Mathematics, Mathematics/Computer Science, Mathematics/Physics and Physics/Chemistry, as well as single-subject options including Biology, Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Studies, Physical and Health Education and Human Kinetics and Health Education, and Secretarial Administration and Computer Applications. Special Education pairings are available with many science, social science and language subjects.

The School of Arts and Social Sciences covers combinations such as Economics/Geography, Economics/History, Christian Religious Studies/Social Studies and Islamic Studies/Social Studies, and subjects including Arabic, History, Economics, Guidance and Counselling, and Administration and Planning. The School of Languages offers English, French, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Arabic in combination with each other and with other subjects. The School of Vocational and Technical Education offers Agricultural Education, Business Education (Accounting and Secretarial options), Fine and Applied Arts and Home Economics. The School of Early Childhood Care, Primary, Adult and Non-Formal Education offers Early Child Care Education and Primary Education Studies.

The college is a beneficiary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) interventions, including physical infrastructure and programme upgrade projects for its Biological Sciences, Physics and Chemistry departments (2016 interventions), and works with the National Commission for Colleges of Education and the Federal Ministry of Education as stakeholders.