Gbewaa College of Education
Established1953 (1953)
AffiliationGovernment of Ghana
Location
Pusiga-Bawku
,
Pusiga District (Bawku Municipal District)
,
UP0085
,
Ghana

11°04′01″N 0°06′54″W / 11.06708°N 0.11491°W / 11.06708; -0.11491
LanguageEnglish
Region
Zone		Upper East Region
Northern Zone
Source: An Atlas of The Forty Colleges of Education in Ghana.[1]

Gbewaa College of Education is a teacher education college in Pusiga-Bawku (Pusiga District / Bawku Municipal District, Upper East Region region, Ghana). Pusiga District / Bawku Municipal District, Upper East Region, Ghana).[1] Located in Northern Zone, the school was set up in 1953 and affiliated to the University of Ghana.[2] It is one of the 46 public colleges of education in Ghana.[3]

The college participated in the DFID-funded T-TEL programme.[4] For the 2016–2017 academic year, the school admitted 560 students into Diploma in Education course.[5]

History

Government Training College Pusiga which is now Gbewaa College of Education was established in 1953. It was built on a land that only became part of Ghana after the 1956 plebiscite. Until then, that part of Ghana was called Trans-Volta Togoland.[6]

In September 1953, the College admitted 14 male students, to start the Certificate ‘B’ course. They were handled by 7 male tutors including the Principal. It remained a male Institution until 1976, when it became a mixed college.

The College has produced good sportsmen and women. Gbewaa College of Education won a prize from World Education/USAID for embarking on a successful Anti HIV/Aids Campaign in 2006.[6]

List of principals since the establishment of the college include:
Name Years served
E H. Nicholson (Founder) Sept. 1953 - Dec. 1956
Mr. Kaleem Dec. 1956 - Apr. 1957
E. H. Nicholson Apr. 1957 - Nov. 1958
H. B. Bending May 1958 - Nov. 1960
I. K. Adjei Jan. 1961 - Nov. 1965
J. H. Banniah Nov. 1965 - Nov. 1970
M. J. Anaman Nov. 1970 - Nov. 1979
C. V. Teview Nov. 1979 - Nov. 1983
Jacob I. Y. Asigri Apr. 1983 - Jun. 1987
A. A. Abem Jun. 1987 - Oct. 1988
Kwaku Acqua Jnr. Oct. 1988 - Jan. 1992
J. B. Larry Jan. 1992 - Nov. 1995
Luke Abugri Nov. 1995

Programmes

The programmes of the College since its establishment include:

  • Certificate ‘B’ Post Middle 1954 - 1964
  • Certificate ‘A’ Post Middle 1964 - 1991
  • Cert ‘A’ Three Year Post Secondary 1992 - 2004
  • Diploma in Basic Education 2004 -
  • Distance Education Programme in Basic Education for Untrained Teachers 2005 - 2009 for the award of:

i. Diploma in Basic Education

ii. Certificate ‘A’ four - year

Notable alumni

The College has produced academic giants for the nation. Some of them are:

  • Prof. Nabilla, member of Council of State
  • Dr. Kwabena Adjei, N.D.C. National Chairman
  • Dr. Abdulai, Principal Tamale Polytechnic
  • Dr. Golfred Tangu, Minister of State in charge of Roads
  • Dr. Dominic Donile, NCCE, Accra
  • Prof. Saaka
  • Hon. Awudu Yirimenya, Dep. Minister of Local Government
  • Mr. B.L. Baba, LOC, Accra
  • Sharlotte Azorago, 2004 National Best Teacher.

References

  1. 1 2 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 Archived 2017-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Gbewaa College of Education - T-TEL". www.t-tel.org. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  3. ↑ "CoE Network - T-TEL". www.t-tel.org. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  4. ↑ "Our network". Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ghana. Archived from the original on December 29, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Gbewaa College of Education admits 560 new students". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  6. 1 2 "Learning Hub - T-TEL". www.t-tel.org. Retrieved 2019-07-26.



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