Holy Child College of Education

Holy Child College of Education (French: Collège d'éducation de Saint Enfant) is a women's college of education in Takoradi (Sekondi Takoradi Metro District, Western Region, Ghana).[1] The college is located in Central / Western zone. It is one of 46 public colleges of education in Ghana[2] and is affiliated to the University of Cape Coast.[3] The college participated in the DFID-funded T-TEL programme.[4]

Holy Child College of Education
Established1946
AffiliationUniversity of Cape Coast, Government of Ghana
Location
Takoradi
,
Sekondi Takoradi Metro District
,
WS124
,
Ghana

4.93675°N 1.74721°W / 4.93675; -1.74721
LanguageEnglish
Region
Zone		Western
Central / Western
Short nameHolico
Websitehttps://holicoe.edu.gh/index.php
Source: An Atlas of The Forty Colleges of Education in Ghana.[1]

Margaret Lemaire is principal of the college.[3]

Education

The college offers a general education programme and an early childhood programme. In 2016, 344 student teachers matriculated into the Diploma in Basic Education programme.[5]

History

Holy Child College of Education was originally opened in 1946 in Cape Coast before moving to its current site nine years later.[3]

Holy Child College was originally established in 1946 in Cape Coast to offer the Post-Primary Certificate ‘A’ course. In 1950, A post-Secondary department was added to be followed in 1952 by the two-year Certificate ‘B’ course which was introduced as part of the Government's Accelerated Development Plan.[6] On 18 February 1955 the college was moved to its present site on the top of Fijai Hill where it shares boundaries with Kweikuma, Archbishop Porter Girls Secondary School and Fijai Senior High School. At the time of relocation, the college was known as Adiembra Training College. The name was changed to Holy Child College derived from the Holy Child Community. The college was expanded to offer an additional course – the two-year post Certificate ‘B’, bringing the number of courses being offered at the time to four. In 1960, the Certificate ‘B’ course was stopped as a policy, thus allowing for substantial increases to be made in the enrolment figures for the other courses. In 1963, the college started a special Home Science bias four-year course aimed at producing teachers for Home Science Centres throughout the country. This course was stopped by a Government's decision in 1969 to be replaced by a two-year specialist course.[6] In 1974, a two-year Vocational/Specialist course was introduced, which was also stopped as a government policy, in 1976. Following the recommendations made by the Dzobo Committee on Education reform, a 3-year Post Secondary Certificate ‘A’ course was started aimed at producing teachers for proposed Junior Secondary Schools. Various factors militated against the success of this course which was discontinued in August, 1979. A new Post-Secondary course structure was then drawn up to enable some kind of specialization, and this college was selected to offer Home Science. The Certificate ‘A’ 4-year Post-Middle course was re-introduced in September 1981. The college ran vacation classes under the modular teacher training programme. Holy Child College was under the headship of the Sisters of the Order of the Holy Child Jesus until 1982.[6] The first substantive principal of the college was Mother Mary Joachim, who assumed duty in January, 1956. Mother Mary Edwin who acted as principal pending Mother Joachim's arrival became Vice Principal. At that time, the staff numbered nine. The college has produced a significant number of women teachers who are found functioning actively not only in the basic schools, but also in secondary and tertiary institutions. In other educational establishments some of them occupy high executive positions. Currently, the college runs a 3-year Diploma in Basic education (DBE) course for regular students. It also runs sandwich courses for untrained teachers and serving Certificate ‘A’ teachers, all leading to the award of Diploma in Basic Education.[6]

Principals of the college since 1956 are:
Name Years served
Mother Mary Joachim 1956 to 1961
Mother Mary Colum 1961 to 1967
Sister Kathleen Marine 1967 to 1973
Sister Mary Anita 1973 to 1981
Mrs. Lucy Peprah Tawiah 1982 to 1986
Mrs. Mabel A. Ephraim - Acting Principal 1986 to 1987
Miss Cecilia Pomary 1987 to1995
Mrs. Cecilia Harry Quaye 1995 to 2008
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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
  3. "Holy Child College of Education - T-TEL". www.t-tel.org. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  4. "Our network". Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ghana. Archived from the original on December 29, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  5. today (2016-11-23). "Holy Child holds matriculation". Today Newspaper. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  6. "Learning Hub - T-TEL". www.t-tel.org. Retrieved 2019-07-23.


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