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1.3 Major Achievements of the College
Right from inception, Federal College of Education, Zaria has recorded various achievements, which have helped to raise it to its present enviable standard of credibility, fame and prestige. The most significant achievements of the College relate to physical facilities, staffing, student population, research and teaching, and manpower development...
1.31 Physical Facilities
In terms of physical facilities, the College has adequate lecture halls, functional laboratories/workshops and adequate staff offices for each of the six schools: Arts & Social Sciences, Education, Languages, Science, Vocational & Technical Education and Undergraduate Studies.
In addition to these, there are two large lecture theatres, each with a capacity of accommodating three hundred (300) students. Also worthy of note is the fact that the College has a beautiful and spacious library building, which is well equipped with relevant books, journals and other study materials, including an internet facility. With the excellent facilities available, the library provides efficient services to the staff and students of the College who constitute the bulk of its readership.
It must also be noted that the college has the largest functional Computer Department among all the Colleges of Education in the country.
1.32 Staffing
One factor that has earned the College tremendous respect among its peers is its large crop of highly trained, experienced and professionally competent staff in all the academic and administrative departments. For instance, of the two-hundred and seventy-two (272) Academic staff in the college, not fewer than one hundred and sixteen (116) have a masters degree or its equivalent, while twenty-five (25) have a PhD degree. Several other staff are in the process of acquiring higher degrees in their fields of specialization. All this is indicative of the superior quality of research and teaching which the College provides.
1.33 Student Population
The student population of the college has been on the increase over the years. This is a definite response to the increasing yearnings for admissions occasioned by the growing popularity and prestige of the College.
The total student population as at 2006 matriculation was about six thousand, eight hundred and sixty-five (6,865). This, indeed, is a significant number, but accords with the excellent facilities available in the institution.
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