Enchi College of Education

Enchi College of Education

Established	1965
Affiliation	University of Ghana, Government of Ghana
Principal	Mr. Phillip Ntaah
Location	Enchi , Aowin District District , WA00004 , Ghana 5°49′46″N2°49′31″W / 5.82944°N 2.82522°W / 5.82944; -2.82522
Language	English
Region Zone	Western Central / Western
Short name	Enchico
Source: An Atlas of The Forty Colleges of Education in Ghana. [1]

Campus View of Enchi College of Education

Enchi College of Education is a teacher education college in Enchi, Western North Region, Ghana. It is one of the 46 public colleges of education in Ghana. ^[2] The college participated in the DFID-funded T-TEL programme. ^[3] Mr. Philip Ntaah has been the Principal since May 2019. ^[4]

In May 2019, the College was affiliated to the University of Ghana. ^[5]

Programmes

Enchi College of Education offers the new Bachelor of Education programmes and they include the B.Ed Early Grade Education, B.Ed Upper Primary Education and B.Ed JHS Education (with specialisms in English, French, RME, Geography, Social Studies, History). ^[6] The College will admit 344 students for the 2024/2025 academic year ^[7]

Achievements

The College emerged as the Number One College for the Fidelity of Implementation of the Bachelor of Education Curriculum in 2023 among all 46 Colleges of Education in Ghana .

In 2024, the College emerged as the overall best College among all the College affiliated to the University of Ghana, Legon . Again, the Current Principal, Mr Philip Ntaah won the best principal among all UG affiliated Colleges of Education Principals in 2024

History

Enchi College of Education was established in 1965 as a male institution and became co-educational a decade later with the admission of thirty-five women in 1975. [8] It re-located to its present site in 1978. The College started with a 4-year post middle Teacher's Certificate ‘A’ programme. The college is located at the Aowin Municipality in the Western-North Region of the republic of Ghana. ^[9] The College's original campus was sited at the southern end of the Enchi township, now being used as the Nana Brentu Secondary Technical School. The first principal of the College was Mr. Djeo Addisson. The college was converted into a three-year post secondary teacher training college in 1988. The college's 59 years of existence so far has been marked by a number of achievements. With an initial enrolment of 70 students and 9 academic staff, the college now has a total enrolment of one thousand and seventy eight teacher trainees. Also, the college has 96 staff, both teaching and non-teaching. ^[8] In the 2002/2003 academic year, the University of Education, Winneba, chose the college as the Western Regional Centre for the Distance Education Programme to prepare certificate ‘A’ teachers for Diploma in Basic Education. In October 2019, the college started the Bachelor of Education Programmes. It is currently running distance programmes with the University of Cape Coast, University of Winneba and Jackson College of Education alongside its regular programmes. The college has been able to produce over 8814 teachers as at the 2022/2023 academic year, most of whom are currently occupying very enviable positions in the country. ^[8]

Despite its busy teaching lessons and practice schedule, there are still many ways for students to get involve in extra-curricula activities. The college proudly produces some sport personalities who excelled at regional, national and beyond national level.

Vision Statement

To be a leading centre of teaching, research and holistic teacher education in Ghana and beyond.

Mission Statement

Enchi College of Education exists to provide congenial learning environment that produces quality and lifelong specialist teachers.

Core Values

Excellence

Diligence

Inclusiveness

Key Management Officers of the College

Name	Position
Mr. Philip Ntaah	College Principal
Dr. Emmanuel Adom Ashun	Vice Principal
Mr. Ben Angyewa Essuman (Esq)	College Secretary
Mr. Ronald Andoh-Kwaw	Ag. College Librarian
Mr. John Nda Ackah Blay	Ag. Finance Officer
Mr. Vicent Takyi	Ag. Internal Auditor

List of principals:

Name	Years served
Mr. Djeo Addison	1965 – 1973
Mr. D.M. Korwumu	1974 – 1976
Mr. John Attipila	1976 – 1980
Mr. Assifuah Nunoo	1980 – 1983
Mr. A.B. Quansah	1983 – 2003
Ms. Victoria Aidoo	2007 – 2016
Mr. Philip Ntaah	2018 - 2025

Notable alumni

In politics, the College also produced some political figures in Ghana's history. The former Western Regional Minister and a current Member of the Ghana Parliament for Sefwi-Wiawso is a product of Enchi College of Education. Others notable personalities: Hon Mathias Kwame Ntow (MP for Aowin constituency, Western region) Madam Victoria Aidoo (Principal of the Enchi College of Education), etc.

Nelson Ackumey (1991-1994), former United States Army track star and a veteran whose performance in track and fields at the time drew much crowd to Enchi park, is one of few. ^[1]

References

1. Björn Haßler, Jacob Tetteh Akunor, Enock Seth Nyamador (2017). An Atlas of The Forty Colleges of Education in Ghana. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Available at http://bjohas.de/atlas2017
2. "National Accreditation Board, Ghana - Public Colleges of Education". Archived from the original on 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
3. "Our network". Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ghana. Archived from the original on December 29, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
4. "Enchi College of Education inducts college principal". GhanaWeb. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
5. Adams, Claude Nyarko (2019-05-18). "Ghana: 6 Colleges of Education Now Affiliated to University of Ghana". Ghanaian Times (Accra). Retrieved 2019-07-06.
6. "Academic Programmes – Enchi College of Education". Enchicoe education.
7. "Enchi College of Education Holds Matriculation for 350 Students". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
8. "Learning Hub - T-TEL". t-tel. Archived from the original on 2019-07-22. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
9. "Enchi College of Education - T-TEL". t-tel. Retrieved 2019-07-05.