Department of Educational Foundations

Eighteen years after the establishment of the university, the Adult and Community Education Programme was created and housed in this unit. It was therefore made a full-fledged department with a head of department. Apart from servicing the other departments, it then graduated its own students in the sub-discipline of Adult and Community Education which lasted for four years. Direct entry students are admitted to do a three-year B.Sc. programme since 2006/2007. By 2017/2018, the department of Educational Management was created out of the department of Educational Foundations. In the following academic session 2018/2019, Adult Education and Community Development was also carved out of the parent department. With these developments, the department of Educational Foundations was left with no undergraduate students and programmes of her own until 2020/2021 academic session. However, it runs the Master of Education (M.Ed.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree programmes in Educational Guidance and Counseling, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Psychology, Sociology of Education, Philosophy of Education, Measurement and Evaluation, History & Policy of Education. The department has successfully graduated students who hold responsible positions in the society, in the public sector, as well as in the organized private sector.

The Department of EDF is also involved in Part-Time Programme administered by the University’s Center for Continuous Education (CCE) which is a five (5) year programme. However, candidates with appropriate qualifications as prescribed by the university are admitted into the undergraduate programme for four years. The department has full autonomy to operate as academic department with a Head of Department who would be responsible to the Dean of the Faculty of Education.