ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Description
Responsible for Curriculum development of courses offered in all the NCE-Awarding Institutions, Accreditation of courses for the award of NCE etc.
Director's Information
Divison - Verification
Function(s)
- Conduct pre and post accreditation visits to NCE Awarding Institutions to ensure compliance with NCCE guidelines and recommendations
- Follow up on the recommendations of Accreditation teams and ensure compliance by Colleges of Education;
- Process verification reports submitted by teams and members;
- Refine from time to time the instrument of verification in line with global best practice;
- Prepare roster for verification exercise; and
- Keep custody of the verification records and reports
Divison - Standards and Certification
Function(s)
- Monitor examination processes and results in NCE awarding institutions;
- Liaise with Academic Boards of NCE awarding Institutions on matters of Standards and Certification;
- Serve as the Commission’s clearing house for certification of NCE graduates;
- Build and maintain a bank of Test items, Examination Questions and records of graduating students;
- Regularly evaluate and enforce external examination procedures and processes in the NCCE guidelines;
- Introduce and coordinate a general paper on Professional Competences for final year students of NCE awarding institutions;
- Determine and review Result Verification Instrument periodically; and
- Perform any other functions that can enhance quality of NCE graduates in line with NCCE mandate
Divison - New Programmes and Institutions
Function(s)
- First point of contact for prospective proprietors of NCE Awarding institutions;
- Coordinate the evolution and sustenance of standards in new programmes and institutions in NCE Awarding Institutions;
- Refine from time to time guidelines for the establishment of new programmes and institutions;
- Prepare and publish roster for resource visits to new programmes and institutions after due approval from the commission’s hierarchy;
- Prepare Resource visit reports for consideration of NCCE management;
- Keep custody of resource visit records and reports
- Perform any function related to new programmes and institutions as shall be assigned by the Director.
Divison - Curriculum Development and Innovations
Function(s)
- Issue call for Curriculum review to Stakeholders;
- Collate, interpret and publish views of Stakeholders on NCE Curriculum;
- Prepare work-plans for the review of NCE Minimum Standards;
- Identify relevant resource persons for the review of the curriculum in each of the specialized areas;
- Coordinate the process of review of the NCE Minimum Standards in line with the work-plans;
- Conduct workshops for the review of the Curriculum; and
- Publish and circulate NCE Minimum Standards
Divison - General Function
Function(s)
- Curriculum development of courses offered in all the NCE-Awarding Institutions.
- Accreditation of courses for the award of NCE
- Making recommendations for the entry requirements and duration of courses.
- Laying down and reviewing, when necessary, Minimum Standards to be attained in teacher education.
- Undertaking evaluation and assessment of NCE In-Service Teacher Programme.
- Laying down assessment methods of students work for the award of NCE and other schedules as may be assigned from time to time.
- Advising the NCE Awarding Institutions on the requirements for establishing new programmes in the Colleges.
- Advising prospective proprietors on the requirements for establishing new colleges.
- Perform any other duty as may be assigned from time to time.
Divison - Accreditation
Function(s)
- Process accreditation reports for presentation to NCCE Management;
- Keep up-to-date records of NCE Awarding institutions and their Accreditation Status;
- Prepare list of NCE Awarding institutions and their due dates for accreditation and re-accreditation;
- Inform NCE Awarding institutions on their accreditation status and their due dates for accreditation or re-accreditation;
- Advice the department from time to time on the type of accreditation arrangement to be adopted for institutions;
- Coordinate the publication of accreditation results of NCE Awarding institutions;
- Use available national and international best practice to rank NCE Awarding institutions; and
- Regularly review accreditation instrument in line with best practice