213:. In September, 2007 the college was given accreditation to offer Diploma programme. However, the first batch of Diploma graduates passed out in July, 2007. Student enrolment as at October, 2007 stood at 916, comprising 613 men and 303 women. The college runs a Sandwich programme in Diploma in Basic Education for 546 certificate ‘A’ teachers, and 586 untrained teachers. Two hundred and thirty-one (231) untrained teachers are also on a sandwich programme for certificate ‘A’. There are 43 teaching staff members, comprising 36 men and 7 women. The college has seen impressive academic record over the years and have trained about eight thousand teachers, a good number of whom have served or are serving in other capacities as public servants, lawyers, accountants, lecturers, politicians, business executives, traditional rulers and media practitioners.
197:). Nana Yiadom Boakye Owusu II, the then Omanhene of Berekum traditional area released 42hectares (103.491 acres) of land, and laid the foundation stone for the establishment of the college. In February 1953, sixty male students were enrolled. Mr. T.T. Buchanan was the College's first principal. Mr. Alex Godwin Kwakye was the first college prefect. Three dormitories were built and named after the first three principals – Buchanan House, Nicholas House, and Stewart House. Mr. I.E. Hayfron was the first Ghanaian principals of the college.
225:) completed some major rehabilitation and constructional works in the college in July, 2000. Within the same period, the Managing Director of Asuo Bomosadu Timbers and Sawmills (ABTS), Berekum donated a 7,000-gallon capacity water reservoir to the college to solve the acute water problem. Under the GETFund, the college has been provided with a modern one-storey Library Complex as well as a 12-Unit Classroom Block.
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was established in 1972, and attached to the college, which became a female institution. Men were re-admitted into the college in 1974 which rendered the Girls
Secondary School removed in 1975. In that year, a 3-Year Post-Secondary programme was introduced to run alongside the 4 Year Post Middle
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programme that was re-introduced in 1975. A Modular programme for uncertificated teachers was introduced in 1984. The Post Middle programme was finally phased out in 1992.
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