Wesley College of Education
Wesley College of Education, Kumasi was established by the Methodist Church, when in 1918 the Synod of the Gold Coast Methodist Church decided to relocate the training of the Church’s workers from Cape Coast and Fourah Bay to the Kemp buildings in Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana. At the Kemp buildings the church started the training of Ministers and teacher-catechists under the tutelage of Rev. S. J. Gibson. In 1921, Rev. C. W. Armstrong took over from Rev. Gibson.
Wesley College of Education, Kumasi was established by the Methodist Church, when in 1918 the Synod of the Gold Coast Methodist Church decided to relocate the training of the Church’s workers from Cape Coast and Fourah Bay to the Kemp buildings in Aburi in the Eastern Region of Ghana. At the Kemp buildings the church started the training of Ministers and teacher-catechists under the tutelage of Rev. S. J. Gibson. In 1921, Rev. C. W. Armstrong took over from Rev. Gibson.
In 1922 the full-fledged institution was named WESLEY COLLEGE and the Rev. C. W. Armstrong became the first Principal with Mr. L. A. Greaves as the first Vice-Principal. As the Methodist Church rapidly expanded across the Akan and Ga speaking circuits of the church, there was the need to establish a training college in the northern sector of the country to train more teachers, ministers and catechists. The Chairman of the Gold Coast District of the Methodist Church Rev. Harry Webster negotiated with the Government at the time, for land to put up the new college. However, it was the Tafohene at the time Nana Yaw Dabanka and his elders who gave the parcel of land on which the college stands at the moment, which was then a dense forest, to the Methodist Church for the establishment of the new college.
The draft agreement for a 999 years lease of a 104-acre plot of land was signed between the Tafohene Nana Yaw Dabanka and the Gold Coast Methodist Church on the 8th April 1922. On 20th November 1922 the foundation stone for the Main block was laid by His Excellency the Governor of the Gold Coast Brigadier Sir Gordon Guggisburg K.C.M.G. D.S.O.R. E.
The courses offered in the College have gone through upgrading from 2-year Cert ‘B’; 4-year Cert ‘A’; 2-year Post-Secondary Cert ‘A; 3-year Post-Secondary Cert ‘A’; Diploma in Basic Education (DBE) and now 4-year B.Ed. degree.
Currently, Wesley College of Education offers the following programmes;
4-year B.Ed. degree in:
- B.Ed. Primary Education
- B.Ed. JHS Education
B.Ed JHS Education Options
1. Math & Science
2. Math & ICT
3. Agric & Science
4. Social Studies & RME
5. Social Studies & Geography
6. Social Studies & Home Economics
7. Social Studies & Physical Education
8. Music and Physical Education
9. French & English Language
10. French & Ghanaian Language
11. English Language & Ghanaian Language
12. Visual Arts
Wesley College of Education is also among the few colleges in Ghana which offer special programmes for the visually impaired.
As a result of the training programmes of the College, she has produced many great personalities in various fields of endeavours.