{"id":4239,"date":"2021-11-30T22:51:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosco.edu.gh\/?page_id=4239"},"modified":"2022-07-24T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T23:33:11","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olasite.coastaltechhub.com\/?page_id=4239","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Foso College of Education<\/span><\/div>

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F<\/span>oso College of Education is a preferred institution among the committee of Colleges for the training of teachers for basic schools in Ghana. It was incorporated as a co-educational teacher training college by Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on the 15th of November, 1965 under the headship of the late Mr. R.R. Essah with 240 students and 9 teaching staff. The students were made up of 120 Post Middle 4-Year and 120 Post \u2018B\u2019 2-Year Certificate \u2018A\u2019 groups.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I<\/span>n the college’s years of existence, Fosco (as the College is affectionately called) has run every major pre-tertiary and now tertiary teacher education programmes in Ghana. Some of these programs are:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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2-Year Post-\u2018A\u2019 Specialist programme in Agric. Sci.<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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U<\/span>nder the tutelage of the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, the College has been running Diploma in Basic Education Programmes since the year 2005. Currently, the College is running a 4-Year Bachelor of Education Degree program.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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T<\/span>he College has a vision to become a centre for training quality basic school teachers whose orientation is holistic and consistent with societal and national aspirations and development.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A<\/span>s a College that believes in holistic development and nurturing of quality teachers, FOSCO intermingle academic work with character training through allied activities, role-modeling and mentorship.\u00a0 Strong, positive religious and cultural values as well as talent development are rigorously enforced.\n\nThe College is situated on a one square kilometer land at Assin Foso, off the Cape Coast \u2013 Kumasi highway.<\/strong><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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