Faculty of Education
PHILOSOPHY
The development of adequate human resources that can function effectively as classroom teachers and managers of education at all levels, through teaching, research, and service. The development of the prospective teachers and educational managers through exposure to knowledge in the areas of academic endeavour and other fields of general knowledge considered relevant for the professional development of educational managers in a rapidly changing industrial and technological world.
VISION
The vision of the faculty is to develop staff to full capacity and produce teachers that will be conscientiously relevant in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, Pure and Applied Sciences, Technology, Management and Business as well as research, through the provision of sound foundational courses and skills in Education.
MISSION
The assignment is the production of teachers who would be effective in the classroom as well as in the socio-political, psychological, and economic development of the learner in their field of professional endeavours. Teachers that are studious in research and knowledge dissemination. This mission will be achieved through the following:
- Quality teaching and research
- Adequate supervision and monitoring of both teachers and students
- Training and retraining of teachers for effectiveness and efficiency.
- Emphasis on character training and modelling
- Adequate provision of infrastructural and human resources for quality assurance.
- Internet and other technological/vocational programmes for teachers and students
- Proper discipline and reward measures
- Staff and students’ welfare services and programmes.
OBJECTIVES
- To produce professional teachers who will stand the test of time
- To produce versatile managers who will occupy strategic positions in schools and other educational settings and organization
- To produce teachers with good knowledge of effective organizational management practices
- To produce graduates that will function effectively as school administrators and teachers per excellence
- To produce skilled personnel that will serve as educational planners, policy designers and decision makers in school

Vincent A.Asuru
Vincent A. Asuru is a Professor of Educational Measurement and Evaluation. He is currently the Dean, Faculty of Education. Prof. Asuru has served the then College and now University in several capacities. They include the Director, School of Remedial & Extramural Studies, Director, Teaching Practice unit, Head of Campus, St John’s Diobu, Head, General Studies unit, Director, Academic Planning unit. He has also served as Chairman and or member of over forty-five (45) committees and panels.
EDUCATION
B.Sc., Education and Political Science, University of Port Harcourt
LLB, Rivers State University
BL, the Nigerian Law School Abuja
M.Ed and Ph.D, Educational Evaluation, International Centre for Educational Evaluation (ICEE), University of Ibadan
Master Trainer Certificate, Study Technology, Applied Scholastics International, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Association of Educational Researchers and Evaluators in Nigeria
Nigeria Bar Association
International Bar Association
Association for Educational Assessment in Africa
Nigeria Academy of Education
PUBLICATIONS
He is widely published in national and international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He serves as editor, reviewer, and assessor to several journals as well as external examiner to many universities.
He is a Knight of the honoured Order of St. Mulumba.
Educational Management
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Educational Management
Library and Information Science
Offers Bachelor of Library Science (B.Ls), and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Library and Information Science
Early Childhood Education and Primary Education
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Primary Education Studie, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, and Adult Educaton and Community Development.
Educational Foundation
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree
Curriculum and Instruction
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree
Educational Psychology, Guidance and Counselling
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Educational…
Adult Education
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Adult Education
Business Education
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Business Education
Science Education
Offers Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree in Business Education
