One of the key factors for enhancing sustainable human capital development is the provision of high-quality teacher education that can produce competent, effective, efficient, innovative and eflective professional teachers. This is the view that guides the Kwara State government in its commitment to establish teacher education institutions. Establishing teacher education institutions has a long tradition of being a priority for Kwara State with the aim of addressing the dearth of professional teachers in the education sector and ensuring that the increasing number of young people in the society has access to higher education in the Nigerian context. In1974, about seven years after its creation in 1967, it sets up a School of Education under the Kwara State College of Technology (Now Kwara State Polytechnic).
The school became independent in 1976 and transformed into the first State-owned College of Education in Nigeria. The State also founded two more Colleges of Education between 1978 and 1991, making it one of the states with the most State-owned teacher education institutions in the nation. The creation of a Faculty of Education as one of the pioneer faculties in the pioneer Kwara State-owned University(Kwara State University, Malete) in 2009, further demonstrated the state’s dedication to producing high quality professional teachers who can contribute to sustainable human capital development and socio-economic growth in the state and beyond. This is the context that gave birth to the Kwara State University of Education under the administration of Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the Executive Governor of Kwara State with the aim of producing competent and innovative educators who can meet the challenges of the 4.0 era and beyond. On November 17, 2023, the Governor appointed an 11-member committee to oversee the establishment of the proposed Kwara State University of Education, under the chairmanship of Prof. Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem(OFR), a distinguished scholar and university administrator.