TASCE IN STORY

Tai Solarin College of Education, established as the first tertiary institution in Ogun State in 1978 as “Ogun State College of Education” then, took off with an initial students’ intake of 187 for the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE).  The College was re-named after the late Dr. Tai Solarin who died on 27th July, 1994 by the State Government for his laudable contributions to the development of education in Nigeria.  The College was initially sited at Ijagun, via Ijebu-Ode but now relocated to its present site in Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State. …. More (Click Here)
 BRIEF HISTORY OF TASCE
The College of Education, then known as Ogun State College of Education, was established in 1978 by then Ogun State Military Administrator, Brig. Gen. H. Eghagha. It was the first tertiary institution in Ogun State and was headed by a Principal, Mr. A. Adebambo. The first Provost of the college, Dr. G A. Badmus (now a Professor) was appointed in 1980.
The College of Education took off with an initial students’ intake of 187 for the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE).  The College was re-named Tai Solarin College of Education in honor of the late Dr. Tai Solarin who died on 27th July, 1994 by the State Government for his laudable contributions to the development of education in Nigeria.
The College was then made up of four divisions. Namely: Education, Natural Science, Applied Science and Humanities. There were different programmes in each division. Later, the Divisions were changed to Schools and were accordingly headed by Heads of Schools.
In 1983, there was reorganization in the academic structure of the College. The Schools of Natural science and Applied Science were merged and named school of Pure and Applied Sciences. In 1987 another academic reorganization took place and the school of Pure and Applied Science was again split into school of Pure Science and School of Vocational and Applied Studies.
Towards the end of 1991/1992 academic session, however, another reorganization of the academic structure of the College was carried out in accordance with the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) guideline. Consequently, the College was divided into five schools namely:
1. School of Education
2. School of Arts and Social Science
3. School of Languages
4. School of Science
5. School of Vocational and Technical Education
Each school is presently headed by a Dean.
 At inception and pre-establishment of the National Commission for Colleges of Education [NCCE], it was a convention that a College of Education is supervised academically by a University.  This College was supervised by the University of Ibadan, through the Institute of Education.
After 20 years of existence and training of teachers at Nigeria Certificate of Education [NCE] level, in 1998, an application was made to the University of Ibadan through its Institute of Education for affiliation to run degree programme of the premier University.  This was granted.  It should also be mentioned that Tai Solarin College of Education was rated as the best State College of Education by the 1999 NCCE accreditation exercise.
 The College was upgraded by the State Government to a University of Education in January 2005, while the NCE programmes were still fully run by the same institution.  The certification by National Universities Commission [NUC] was in November 2005.
However, the moderating bodies for Universities (NUC) and Colleges of Education (NCCE) both showed displeasure in combining both the University and the College on the same site and with common staff and facilities.  Consequently, in October, 2008 the College of Education was disarticulated from the University to regain its entire autonomy, and relocated to a new place in its present site at Omu-Ijebu.
The Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu remains the only Ogun-State owned institution offering the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) programme.  A new instrument was released by the State Government via the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu, enabling Law 2008, to legalize this new mo