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Science Education Admission Requirements

Requirements for students intending to undergo the four-year B.Ed degree in the Department of Science education include 5 ‘O’ Level credits must include those obtained in English Language and Mathematics (for the various courses under the department;Biology,Computer science,Physics,Mathematics,Chemistry: student must have at least a credit in
physics,Chemistry,Biology,or Agricultural Sciences). Such students must have also demonstrated a satisfactory level of performance at the UTME.

Candidates seeking Direct Entry admission must have GCE Advanced Level (or its equivalent) passes in two subjects, including Mathematics and English Language*.

Candidates with NCE (with a minimum of Merit) or Diploma in Mathematics,English and any other three science subjects.

THE PROGRAMME OFFERED

• B.Ed. Mathematics
• B.Ed. Biology
• B.Ed. Chemistry
• B.Ed. Computer Science
• B.Ed. Physics

Each of the degree programmes lasts three years for Direct Entry applicants and four years for UTME applicants.

For the Department, it is axiomatic that science education is a universal phenomenon that manifests itself in superficially differing ways in different human,economical,scientific and technological communities. For the science, all these properties and features are susceptible of discovery and explanation, using techniques and procedures hallowed by the time and practice.

Objectives

The courses offered under the Science Education programme are designed to train students that:

(i) are thoroughly conversant with the techniques, procedures, and terminology of modern Science;

(ii) can apply their training to produce elementary Scientific teaching materials ;

(iii) can participate in, and contribute to, scientific development efforts requiring the creation of new technological and technical driven approaches;

(iv) can, if required, teach from independent knowledge the structure (i.e. the Sciences as opposed to the literature aspect) of at least one application, and read up the structures of other professions for the purpose of teaching, explaining them; and

(v) can undertake low level research on any aspect of any sciences.

• B.Ed Computer Sciences
• Physics