AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION

1. General Admission Requirements
2. A senior secondary school certificate (SSCE), (WAEC or NECO) or GCE O’ level with passes in five subjects including English language, three of which must be at credit level at one sitting or five credits at two sittings. Two of the credits must be relevant to the course the candidate wishes to offer credit/merits in English language and/or mathematics may be required in some courses.
3. A Grade II Teacher Certificate (TC II) with credits or merit in three subjects, two of which must be relevant to the course the candidate wishes to offer. Credit/merit in English language and/or Mathematics may be required in some courses.
4. For candidates transiting from college organized PRE-NCE program, a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 1.0 is required for absorption into direct NCE Agricultural Education Programme.
5. Associate ship certificate in education awarded by an approved institution in Nigeria or abroad, is also an acceptable qualification.
6. Additional Admission Requirement
7. In addition to General admission requirements, candidates seeking admission into NCE (Agricultural Education) programme with SSCE/NECO result must have credits in Biology or Agricultural Science and a pass in Chemistry.
8. All candidates wishing to be considered for admission must enroll for and write the selection examination organized by an accredited body such as JAMB.
9. It should be noted that some colleges may in addition to all the above, administer their own elimination test and /or interviews for some course. This is legitimate.
10. Preliminary NCE Programme

Candidates wishing to enter for the proogramme should have the following minimum qualifications:

1. Grade II candidate must have passed fully made II and in addition have at least three(3) credits merits, one of which must be in Agricultural Science.
2. GCE ‘O’ Level or SSCE for secondary school leavers candidates must hold GCE ‘O’ Level or SSCE certificate with the minimum of two credits of which one of them must be in any of the following:

• Mathematics
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology, Agricultural Science and
• Geography

6) CURRICULUM TABLE

PRE-NCE Agricultural Science

PRE-NCE FIRST SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Credits	Status
AGE 011	Basic Concepts of Agricultural Production	1-0-1	2
AGE 012	Introduction to study of soil	1-0-1	1
AGE 013	Rudiment of Farm Mechanization	1-0-1	2
AGE 014	Plant Biology	1-0-1	2
BIO 015	Physical Chemistry	1-0-1	2
CHEM 016	Introduction to Arithmetic Algebra and Statistics	1-0-1
	Total		13 credits

PRE-NCE SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Credits	Status
AGE 021	Elements of Crop Production	2-01	2
AGE 022	Livestock Production	1-0-1	2
AGE023	Agricultural Economics and Extension	1-0-1	2
AGE 024	Agricultural Field Experience	1-0-1	2
BIO 021	Animal Biology	1-0-1	2
CHE 021	Organic Chemistry	1-0-1	2
PHY 021	Introduction to electricity and Magnetism	1-0-1	2
MAT 021	Introduction to Trigonometry	2-00	2
Total			16 Credits

• NCE I FIRST SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Contact LTP	Status/Credits
VTE 320	Introduction to Vocational and Technical Education	1-0-3	1C
AGE 111	Introduction to Agriculture	1-0-3	1C
AGE 112	Agricultural Biology	1-0-3	2C
AGE 113	Agricultural Mathematics	1-0-0	1C
AGE 114	Agricultural physics	1-0-3	1C
AGE 115	Introduction to Agro- Climatology	1-0-3	2C
AGE 116	Agricultural Chemistry	1-0-3	2C
AGE 117	Practical Agriculture I	1-0-4	1C
AGE 118	Introduction to croup production	1-0-3	2C
	Total		13C

NCE I SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Contact LTP	Status/Credits
AGE 121	Arable Crop production	1-0-3	2C
AGE 122	Introduction to Animal Science	1-0-3	1C
AGE 123	Youth Organization in Agriculture	1-0-3	2C
AGE 124	Principles of Agricultural Economics	1-0-0	1C
AGE 125	Agricultural Science Methodoloy 3	2-0-0	2C
AGE 126	Introductory Soil Science	1-0-3	2C
AGE 127	Agric. Finance	0-0-4	1C
AGE 128	SIWES 16Weeks	0-0-4	1C
Total			13C

NCE II FIRST SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Contact LTP	Status/Credits
AGE 221	Tree Crop production	1-0-3	2C
AGE 212	Poultry production	1-0-3	2C
AGE 213	Introductory Genetics	2-0-3	2C
AGE 214	Principles of Agricultural Economics	1-0-3	1C
AGE 215	Farm Power Machinery	1-0-3	2C
AGE 216	Curriculum development agriculture	1-0-3	1C
AGE 217	Fish production	0-0-4	2C
AGE 218	Animal Nutrition	1-0-3	1C
Total			13C

• NCE II SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Contact LTP	Status/Credits
AGE 220	Entrepreneurship  in Vocational and Technical Education	1-0-3	2C
AGE 221	Research Method in  Agric. Education	2-0-0	2C
AGE 222	Soil Fertility	1-0-3	2C
AGE 223	Principles of Crop Production	1-0-3	2C
AGE 224	Crop Improvement	1-0-3	2C
AGE 225	Livestock Production (Ruminant/non Ruminant)	1-0-3	4C
AGE 226	Principles of Farm Management	1-0-3	2C
AGE 227	Practical Agriculture IV/Field Trip	0-0-4	1C
AGE 228	Land Survey and Farm State Planning	1-0-3	2C
AGE 229	Excursion	1-0-4	2C
SUB-TOTAL		1-0-3	20C

NCE III FIRST SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Contact LTP	Status
EDU 311	Teaching Practice		6C
	Total		6C

1. NCE III SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code	Course Title	Contact LTP	Status/Credits
AGE 320	Seminar in Agricultural Education		1C
AGE 321	Environmental  Education in Agriculture	1-0-0	2C
AGE 322	Animal Health	1-0-3	2C
AGE 323	Food  Products Technology	2-0-0	2C
AGE 324	Basic Agriculture Water Engineering	1-0-0	2C
AGE 325	Horticulture	1-0-3	4C
AGE 326	Agricultural Development and policy	2-0-0	2C
AGE 327 A-C AGE 310	Bee Keeping/Snail/Cane rate Farming Entrepreneurship in Agric.Edu.	1-0-3   1-0-3	1C   2C
AGE 315	Agric. Marketing and Cooperatives	2-0-0	2C
AGE 318	Introduction to Rural Sociology and Extension	1-0-0	1C
TOTAL		1-0-0	16C