Challenges Facing National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) in Relation to Production of Teachers for Basic Education in Nigeria

Abstract

The teacher production for the Basic education in Nigeria is handled by colleges of education in Nigeria. For quality assurance and supervision the government of Nigeria established the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) in 1989. The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) since its establishment have been overseeing the development of colleges of education in Nigeria. Recently, researchers observed there are challenges facing the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) in Nigeria and these challenges is affecting the mandate of supervising colleges of education in charge of teacher production for Basic education in Nigeria. This presentation is intends to discuss the challenges facing National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) in relation to teacher production for Basic education in Nigeria. Primary and secondary data were used to support the points raised in the presentation. Print and online publication on National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and colleges of education in Nigeria were sourced. Two challenges were identified namely internal and external challenges as facing National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) in term of teacher production for Basic education. The internal challenges includes; lack of review in the act of National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), poor funding of National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), inadequate data and duplication of Teacher Education Quality Management as the internal challenges facing the Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) in relation to teacher production for Basic education in Nigeria while the external challenges include; inadequate funding, poor implementation of visitation panel and NEED report of 2014, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, shortage of lecturers, strike action and low motivation. To solve these challenges, the presenter recommended that the funding of National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and the present bill at the senate chamber should be passed etc.