SchChat - School | College of Education, Warri

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The College of Education, Warri among others, was established to help meet this need for qualified teachers for the new secondary schools. The college was initially established as an Advanced Teachers’ College at Ihogbe, Benin City on the 2nd October, 1979 by the defunct Bendel State Government. It operated from the premises of the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), Benin City with Dr. H.S.A Aluyi as the founding Provost. The College was officially opened on the 5th May 1980 by His Excellency, Late Professor Ambrose Alli, the Executive Governor of the State. On that day, the College was renamed College of Education, Ihogbe, Benin-City and the Government announced that it was only temporarily based in Ihogbe and in due course would be moved to its permanent site to be named later. In August 1980, the Governor directed that the College should be moved to Warri. Consequently, on 9th February 1981, the college moved to its temporary site in Warri which shared a common boundary with Hussey College at Upper Erejuwa Road. College of Education, Warri train students in their chosen careers as vocational teachers and for self reliance. The College runs Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) and Degree programmes in Education and is fast expanding with a wide range of courses.