Abstract

This paper examined alumni as a key to the development of colleges of education in Nigeria It highlighted the fact that colleges develop in relation to the status of their alumni This explains why the NCE certificate and teachers poor working conditions hinder the participation of colleges of education alumni in the development of their alma mater Most of the country s top officials who attended colleges of education for their NCE do not include them on their list of schools attended Some professors who rose through the ranks to become vice chancellors of federal universities earned NCEs before enrolling in universities for bachelor s and postgraduate degrees They choose to be alumni of universities rather than colleges of education where they began with NCE This paper concludes that alumni associations have the ability to give back more to their alma mater than they have received and recommends that the government provide teachers with a separate salary structure as well as allowances for teaching research and examination supervision all of which should be included in the separate structure