The Federal College of Education,

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is a federal government

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after comple ...

institution located in Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria. It is affiliated to

Bayero University Kano The Bayero University Kano (BUK) is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1975, when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from University College to University. It is the first university in ...

for its degree programmes. The current Provost is Aliyu Idris Funtua.

History

The Federal College of Education (Technical), Katsina was established in 1976.

Library

The College

library A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...

is academy library that was established in 1975 as the main Library. The library has over 50,000 Volumes of books, 500 seating capacity space with electronic - library facilities of over 100 computers and internet connectivity. the information resources in the library support and compliment all the course offer in the college. the main library coordinate and maintained other departmental libraries in the school.

Sections

The college Library has the following sections: * General reading room section * Special Collections Sections * Library services sections: This section have some services provided under it ** Loans Services: the normal loans of information resources is four weeks for staff and two weeks for students. ** Reservation service: is main concern with those books with high demand or heavily used are removed from the open shelves and put them on closed access collection in the reserve section for effective and efficient controlled of the way these books will be used by staff and students. ** Reference Service: the reference Librarian is always available to answer queries for students and staff especially on how to locate material and where to find reliable piece of information. ** Reprographics Service: the library is equipped with facilities for this service of reproduction of information resources.

Courses

The institution offers the following courses; * Agricultural Science Education * Education and Mathematics * Fine And Applied Arts * Chemistry Education * Building Technology Education * Education and English Language * Computer Education * Education and Hausa * Education and Arabic * Technical Education * Biology Education * Education and Social Studies * Home Economics and Education * Integrated Science * Business Education * Primary Education Studies

Affiliation

The institution is affiliated with the

to offer programmes leading to

Bachelor of Education A Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) is an undergraduate professional degree which prepares students for work as a teacher in schools. In some countries such as Tanzania and Kenya, additional tasks like field work and research are required in order fo ...

, (B.Ed.) in; * Education and Physics * Education and Chemistry * Education and English Language * Physical and Health Education * Education and Islamic Studies * Education and Arabic * Education and Biology * Education and Mathematics * Education and Hausa

References

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