Al-Hikmah University Journal

Within the restructuring agenda of Nigeria, the National Educational Agenda’s target was to upgrade and re-skilling teachers. This led to the conception of the Professional Diploma in Education (PDE). Within this programme, re-skilling of these educators was targeted to assist the educational department in implementing its new school curriculum. Although many cohorts in earth related courses such as geography have graduated from the programme, questions are still being asked of the programme’s effects on them. This study therefore assessed the Impact of Professional Diploma in Education PDE in FCE Zaria. The objectives are to; ascertain the effects of Professional Diploma in Education (PDE) on teacher’s personal life, investigate the effects of PDE on teacher’s professional life, assess the contributions of PDE on teacher’s efficiency, ascertain the extent to which PDE improve student’s academic performance and evaluate how qualified graduates of PDE programme contributes to the academic achievements of their students. Data were Purposive collected from 85 respondents who are graduates of the FCE Zaria PDE programme, using the kobo toolbox. The data obtained from the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as Mean, Standard deviation were employed for data analysis using SPSS on the other hand inferential statistic T-test was used to test the hypothesis of the study. The findings of the study provide noticeable change in the personal and professional lives of graduates teachers’ in areas of: teaching methodology, classroom management, provision of teaching aids, confidence boost. It recommended that more emphasis should be made on school based tasks (teaching practice) because it gives educators an opportunity to experiment what has been learnt in the contact session and also salary and allowances of the PDE enrollees should be increased etc.