Tamale College of Education is a teacher education college in

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Sagnarigu District Sagnarigu Municipal District is one of the sixteen districts in Northern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Tamale Municipal District in 1988, which was created from the former West Dagomba District Council, until a ...

, Northern Region,

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).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 The college is located in Northern Zone zone. It is one of the 46 public colleges of education in Ghana. The college participated in the

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-funded T-TEL programme. For the 2018/2019 academic year, the institution received 1086 admission applications but admitted 543. The rest were rejected due to infrastructural challenges.

History

Tamale College of Education is located within the Education Ridge in the

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Metropolis. It was opened in 1958 with the motto ‘ORA ET LABORA’ by the first president of the Republic of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr.

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. Sixty female pioneer students were enrolled in the college that year, and it remained a female institution until 1977 when it became a mixed institution. The first principal of the college was Miss Freda Mischler, a Swiss Missionary. Tamale College of Education has staff and students’ accommodation. It has academic facilities such as Science Laboratory, Library, Assembly Hall, ICT centre with internet facilities. The college has a 4WD Nissan Patrol, a Benz Bus and a 58-seater Tata bus.

Programme

The college has gone through the following programmes since its establishment: * 4-year Teacher's Certificate ‘A’ Post Middle 1957-1994 * 3-year Teacher's Certificate ‘A’ Post Middle 1990-2006 * 3-year Diploma in Basic Education post secondary 2004- * 4-year Diploma in Basic Education – UTDBE 2005 * 2-year Diploma in Basic Education post ‘A’ sandwich 2007

Notable alumni

Tamale College of Education has produced over 5,000 teachers for the

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since its establishment. Some of the products are * Mrs. Margaret Andan who became a principal of the college and a Divisional Director for Secondary Education * Miss Alice Continua a former District Chief Executive of

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, and currently the Member of Parliament. * Doris Asibi Seidu, former member of parliament for the Chereponi constituency. *

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, former deputy minister for Trade and Industry. *

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, current member of Parliament for Tamale north.

References

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