The department started as Harden College of Education in January 1961, with 41 students for a two-years Diploma in Education Programme. In the 1961/62 session, the Department enrolled 40 studnets for the Bachelor Degree (B.A and B.Sc.) in Education. The students combined two teaching subjects with prescribed courses in Pedagogy. The title of the degree, B.A. or B.Sc. depended on whether the candidate studied an Art or Science subject respectively. In the year 1981/82 academic session, the Department of Education was reconstructed into one Department and two sub-departments:
Philosophy
Philosophy underlying the undergraduate programme of Guidance and Counseling is in line with the core value of the University which focus on the moral rectitude for the production of globally competitive graduates that love universal truth for the upliftment of the society. Inexperienced students need to be guided alright in tier educational, vocational and socio-personal endavour so as to produce the total man. That is the essence of the Guidance and Counseling