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College of Education and Behavioral Sciences (CEBS) was established as Institute of Education and Professional Development Studies (IEPDS) in the year 2010 G.C following the business process re-engineering in the university. The Institute was meant to run both regular teaching and the University’s continuous professional development programs for both the academic and administrative staffs. Under IEPDS, there were two departments namely: Department of Educational Planning and Management (EdPM) formed by dissolving the department of Pedagogy which was under the former Faculty of Education. Later on, the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (TECS) was founded in 2003 E.C as a result of the business process re-engineering the university has undergone and the launching of the New Teacher Education Program (Add-On Model), known as Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching (PGDT). It was at these periods that few of the postgraduate programs of the college were opened: MA in Educational Leadership and MA in Curriculum and Instruction in addition to the postgraduate diploma and certificate programs. It was in the year 2014 G.C, that the current College of Education and Behavioral Sciences was formally founded by including Department of Psychology (which was formerly constituted under the College of Social Sciences and Humanities) and later on initiated the opening of the 4th department known as Department of Special Needs and Inclusive Education (SNIE).

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