Job College of Education, Ila-Orangun

Job College of Education is a teacher-training college in Ila-Orangun, Osun State, Nigeria. It offers the three-year Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) and trains teachers for basic and secondary schools in the labour market and for self-reliance.

Its stated mission is to provide qualitative teacher education with practical knowledge, skills and competence that make the individual competitive in the labour market, and to provide effective empowerment for self-reliance and improved quality of life. Its vision is to nurture a teaching and learning community, advance frontiers of knowledge, engender a sense of selfless public service and add value to teacher education in Nigeria. The college describes its aim as producing a 'total graduate': goal getter, pace setter, solution provider, job creator, confident and empathy-filled.

Academic work is organised in six schools: General Education; Early Childhood Care and Primary Education; Science; Arts and Social Sciences; Language; and Vocational and Technical Education. Programmes run as double-major subject combinations, including Social Studies, CRS, English, Yoruba, Economics and Political Science pairings in the arts, languages and social sciences; Integrated Science, Computer Education, Mathematics and Economics pairings in science; Business Education; and Early Childhood Care Education, Primary Education Studies and Primary, Adult and Non-Formal Education.

Facilities include an ICT Innovation Hub supported by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), with high-speed internet, multimedia laboratories and programming workstations, and a Teacher-Training Lab and Simulation Centre in which pre-service teachers practise mini-lessons before school placement. The college is led by a Director, Provost, Registrar and Bursar. Applications are made online through the college portal.