Al-Hikmah University Journal

Teacher education is a programme that is related to the development of teacher proficiency and competence that would enable and empower the teacher to meet the requirements of the profession and face the challenges therein. In this era of global competitiveness, it is imperative that teachers are adequately prepared to function effectively in a challenging global environment. The article discussed history of teacher education in Nigeria, classification of teacher education, goals of teacher education as stated in National Policy on Education. Some of the challenges discussed are in the area of societal and economic/financial values, fall in standard of education, poor quality control, brain drain syndrome are attributable to a large extent, to lack of incentives to improve performance of teachers’, inadequate provision of teaching facilities, textbooks and library facilities to equipped the teachers’, mass production of poor quality of teachers dominates academic contents realm, poor recruitment, screening and selection of teachers for job among others. The following recommendations are government should make funds available to revive teacher education in Nigeria, provide teaching facilities that would enable the teachers to keep abreast on the latest technologies in education, strict adherence to rules and regulation on recruitment, selection and retention of teachers and follow up on the agencies that manage quality control management on Teacher Education.