Welcome to HAVARD WILSON College of Education. As you may be aware, this school was formally called REDEMPTION COLLEGE OF EDUCATION. Today, the re-branding process is here to create a great change in the institution and our capabilities. Thank you for your interest in HAVARD WILSON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION. The Background Section of this website is the starting point to learn more about our extra-ordinary institution and historical information. Whether you are considering an undergraduate NCE programme, interested in one or other academic opportunities or simply want to learn more about Havard Wilson College of Education, you are welcome! Whether you are considering an undergraduate NCE programme, interested in one or more academic opportunities, or simply want to learn more about Havard Wilson College or The Carol-P schools, welcome!

Background The bane of African Continent is rooted in its low quality Education. It is clear that no nation can move beyond its level of Education. This motivated the Education for All (EFA) and other programmes by UNESCO International Commission on Education for the 21st Century. In Nigeria, fortunately, there is a clarion call now to hook the nation up to the global train for Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the Integration of national system of production and finance, competition for capital in the world, world integration, and world-wide economic revolution. But this can not be achieved with the fallen state of the Nigerian Education system which left our country's Education system far behind, even by third-world standards. While the present government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has started a gigantic step towards catching up as well as creating the necessary changes in the education system, some NGO's and private educators have taken the challenge to a level it can no more slip off the conscience of good-meaning Nigerians. HAVARD WILSON College of Education Aba, Abia State of Nigeria, a private Higher Institution and first of its type in Eastern Nigeria, came forth with the mission of redeeming the Nigerian education and repositioning her into a permanent member of the knowledge world. We are not only educating the people of Nigeria, we are also training the trainers (teachers) of "the future Nigeria" with such quality that the UNESCO will find us a very dependable partner in meeting the challenge in education of the 21st century. We are on a no turning-back mission for change in Redeeming education. Historical Development The directors of the institution started their Education Industry in 1994 with private nursery and primary schools. In September 1995, the secondary (post Primary) school was added. The performance was so encouraging that the directors started a post secondary preparatory school in 1997 with the Name Carol-P College of arts and science. It became Redemption College of Arts and Science in 2001 and Redemption College of education in 2004. The HAVARD WILSON college of Education can be said to have started officially as Redemption College of Arts and Science 2001 at its first campus on the Umuimo Road by-pass at Aba, to run diplomas, and remedial courses, etc. The Institution took effect from 19th July, 2002, after establishing a second campus at 303 Aba Owerri Road, Aba. With the high population of children admission into Nursery, Primary, and Secondary Schools in the state, the dearth of qualified teachers, and, worse still, the state was dealing with technical Education only, this institution in its determined effort to contribute to the solution, sought and obtained the state ministry of education authority to establish a higher institution with a view to working with the Ministry of Education and National Commission for Colleges of Education, to run NCE Courses. The higher institution was established by the ministry of education later on 1st September, 2003. The Institution processed its application with the national Commission for Colleges of Education, Abuja and got its take-off approval in June, 2004; and finally the approval on 25th October, 2005. With the final approval/license, the college was picked up by JAMB in 2005. (See Page 11 no 11 of the most recent 2007/2008 MPCE JAMB brochure.) HAVARD WILSON College of Education has had its courses already accredited, and currently processes its affiliation with one of the leading Universities of the country. The present two campuses of the HAVARD WILSON College of Education are temporary Campuses, while a permanent site has been acquired for the college. Meanwhile, the second campus which houses the administrative block is located at a vantage and strategic position at express Gateway into Aba, at No. 303 Aba-Owerri Road, Abayi Aba. This Administrative Block is approximately equidistant and 40-minutes drive from each of: Port Harcourt (to the South), Umuahia (to the North), Owerri (to the West), and Akwa-Ibom (to the East). Thus the location is central to four different state capital cities of the eastern part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria - Rivers, Imo, Abia, and Akwa Ibom States. It is also two hours equidistant from Onitsha, Enugu, and Calabar. HAVARD WILSON College of Education is the first privately owned higher institution in Abia State and the first purely private and autonomous College of Education East of the Niger.