Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsin-Ma

Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsin-Ma is a state-owned teacher-training institution in Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, north-western Nigeria (P.M.B. 5007). It was established in 1991 as College of Education (Technical), Dutsin-Ma, to address the shortage of science and technical teachers at NCE level, became a conventional college of education in 1994, and was renamed in 1995 after the late Alhaji Isa Kaita, Wazirin Katsina and a First Republic Minister of Education in the old Northern Region.

The academic structure follows the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) minimum standards. The college has seven schools with twenty-six departments: Adult, Non-Formal and Special Needs Education; Early Childhood Care and Primary Education; Education; and four Schools of Secondary Education (Arts and Social Sciences, Languages, Sciences, and Vocational and Technical). Departments include Curriculum, Education Foundation, General Studies, Psychology, Economics, Geography, History, Social Studies, Islamic Studies, Arabic, English, Hausa, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Integrated Science, Physical and Health Education, Computer Education, Technical Education, Agricultural Education and Home Economics.

Beyond the NCE, the Centre for Literacy and Continuing Education oversees non-NCE programmes, including the Diploma in Computer Studies and a Professional Diploma in Education run in affiliation with Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Pre-NCE and degree programmes are also offered; the college has been affiliated with Ahmadu Bello University for undergraduate degrees, with a matriculation ceremony held by ABU for degree entrants in February 2023. Earlier affiliations include Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and Bayero University, Kano for postgraduate diploma and matriculation programmes.

The college has been selected as an institution for the Female Teacher Training Scholarship Scheme under the Girl Child Education Project and later the Global Partnership for Education programme in Katsina State, under which girls are selected and funded for NCE courses. Its NCE programmes undergo periodic NCCE accreditation; 26 programmes were presented for re-accreditation in September 2022, the previous exercise having been held in 2016.

The college is governed by a Governing Council, reconstituted for the 12th time in May 2026, and led by a Provost; the Provost is Dr. Ismaila Ado Funtua.