Colleges of Education are teacher training
institutions established to train teachers for primary and junior secondary
schools in Nigeria. Research shows that science teachers trained in these
colleges are not performing well in classrooms after their graduation. This is
due to problems associated with Colleges of Education such as lack of science
equipment, bad leadership, lack of committed lecturers and bad admission
policy. These problems make teachers trained in these colleges to be
incompetent in teaching science. The resultant effect of this is poor students’
academic performances in science subjects both in primary and secondary
schools. The paper suggested some recommendations for stakeholders in education
to solve the problems.
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