Komenda College of Education is a co-educational teacher education college in Komenda, Central Region (Ghana).Björn Haßler, Jacob Tetteh Akunor, Enock Seth Nyamador (2017). An Atlas of The Forty Colleges of Education in Ghana. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Available at http://bjohas.de/atlas2017 It is one of 46 public colleges of education in Ghana and participated in the

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-funded Transforming Teacher Education and Learning Ghana (T-TEL) programme. In 2017, Komenda CoE implemented a project to go paperless. The Principal is Rev. Dr. Kwesi Nkum Wilson.

History

Komenda College was established in 1948, on a site which had been used by the British Navy during

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. Komenda College of Education started out of the buildings(

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) left by the Fleet Air Arm of the British Navy after the

. Through the efforts of Mr. A.B. Sam, regent of Komenda, the legacy was leased to the Methodist Church Ghana, in 1947 to be used as a training college. The government made some renovation works on the buildings to make it suitable for educational use. On March 11, 1948, the first batch of students numbering forty men was enrolled to start an initial 2-year Teacher's Cert ‘B’ programme. In 1952, the college became a co-educational institution with its first batch of thirty women. The first principal of the college was Mr. Lawrence Alfred Creedy, a British citizen. The motto of the college is “Bepכwso Kurow Hyer3n”, meaning a city set on a hill, shines forth. The adopted strands by the founding father were; Academic excellence, Service to God and Service to mankind. Messrs R.C. Mensah, C.K. Penrose, Wonderful Dadson, K.A. Essuman and J.C.O. Okyere were among the pioneer tutors of the college. The college has gone through the following academic programmes: * 2-year. Cert “B’. * 4-year. Cert “A”. * 2-year. Cert “A” (Post –Sec) * 3-year. Specialist (Music & Art) * 2-year Modular Course * 3-year Cert “A” (Post –Sec) * 4-year (Untrained Diploma in Basic Education) * 3-year Diploma in Basic Education

Notable alumni

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- Politician; formerly member of the Ghana Council of State *

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- Academic; Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast *

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- Journalist and academic; Director General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (1982-1984) *

Samuel Atta Mills Samuel Atta Mills is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. ...

- Member of parliament for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Constituency (2017–) *

Kwamena Minta Nyarku Kwamena Minta Nyarku (born 7 December 1974) is a Ghanaian academic and politician who is a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He is the member of parliament for the Cape Coast North Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. ...

- Member of parliament for the Cape Coast North Constituency (2021–) *

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- Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, 2014 – 2018.

Principals

References

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