edu 304 - comparative education - National Open University of Nigeria

the award of undergraduate degree, master's degrees, doctoral
degree as well as certificates and diplomas.
(b) The non degree-offering institutions: Such institutions offer
diplomas and advanced diplomas. Courses being offered
include teacher education.
(c) The institutions which specialize in other areas at the certificate
level.
It should be noted that the University of Dares Salaam has a
department of education particularly for the training of secondary
school teachers.
Also, the Diploma teachers who spend six years in the secondary
school and one year in the teachers college teach academic and technical
subjects in Tanzanian secondary schools. The teacher trainees in the
Tanzanian teacher training institutions have a farm each which provides
the food eaten by the teacher trainee themselves. This is to make the
students to have interest and love for anything farming.
3.7.6 Teacher Education for Teachers in the Higher Institutions
Higher Education according to the National Policy on Education
(1981) covers the post secondary section of the National Education
System which is given in Universities, polytechnics and Colleges of
Technology including such courses as are given by the Colleges of
Education, the Advanced Teacher Training Colleges, Correspondence
Colleges and such institution as may be allied to them.
3.7.7
In Nigeria, teacher education for higher education teachers to some
extent depends largely on the Universities. However, the highest
qualification of the Nigerian Higher Education teachers depends on the
type of higher education in which one is working.
The teachers working in the Nigerian Universities are being
trained in the Nigerian Universities or elsewhere. Before a teacher can be
employed to teach in the university, he must have at least a Masters
degree in the relevant discipline.
Also, teachers for polytechnics, colleges of Technology are being
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