Background of RCTE

Dear all academic staff, I would like to appreciate for all progress our college arrive at and for our future goal set on the next 5 to 10 years plan. All academic staff committed to produce competent, capable & confident pre-primary and primary school 2nd cycle teachers who have the desired academic knowledge, attitude and efficient professional skill by acquiring research and problem-solving skills to serve their society in equipping them with democratic ideals.

Robe College of Teachers Education

Robe College of Teachers’ Education (RCTE), which is one of the higher educations in Oromia Regional State, was established four decades ago in 1979 GC as ‘Teachers Training Institute. ’RCTE is found in Oromia Regional State, Bale Zone at Robe Administrative Town with the area of 278,980m2. Since its inception up to 2002, the college had been certifying teachers for primary schools with one year training. RCTE average enrollment capacity is about 600-700 trainees per year in regular program, 600-700 trainees per year in extension program and about 900 trainees per year in summer and distance program. A total of more than 35,000 trainees were graduated from RCTE in the past years.

The college is led by a dean who is assisted by two vice deans: Academic vice dean and Administrative vice dean.  Currently, RCTE has a total of 165 staff, of which 73 are academic and 92 are administrative staffs.

In recent years, the College has been undertaking various reform schemes in order to cope with and respond to the fast-changing national and international educational dynamics. Accordingly, the college is giving trainings for student-teachers under five streams and 16 departments.

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