The Department is named Educational Foundations because under this department, the students are exposed to foundational and core courses that are compulsory for student tea hers to know and study irrespective of their areas of specialization. Educational management and planning was previously under this department until it became a department on its own, based on the recommendations of National Universities Commission in 2017.

The Department intends to achieve the following objectives;

1. To be directly engaged in the creation, transmission of periodic evaluation of knowledge delivery in the pursuit of excellence in academic scholarship and intellectual inquiry through teaching, research and public service.
2. To train student teachers that will be proud to be called teachers, that will also be good role models to those behind them.
3. To equip them with the qualities of a good teacher
4. To rise professional and well qualified guidance counsellors that will advise and counsel students on how to handle emerging child and adolescence problems.
5. To train secondary school teachers that will handle students with diverse forms of disabilities (Deaf, blind, cripple, etc.) in order for them to live a fulfilled life in the society knowing fully well that there is disability in ability.
6. To expose the students to the relationship between school and society where it exists, the inter-relationship between education and other social institution (family, religious, political, economical and health).
7. To prepare the minds of student teachers on the impact of a child’s family socio-economic status in life.
8. To explain how different forms of agents of socialization can make or mar a student’s life.
9. To expose the students’ teachers to the skill of setting questions, marking and grading of students.
10. To expose the students’ teachers on how the personality of an individual can affect his/her choices, interests, potentials and attainment in life.
11. To explain the importance of the knowledge of emotional and social intelligence to a teacher in their dealings with those around them.
12. To unveil to the students’ the factors responsible for designing the curriculum contents of the school.

As an exemplary centre for the production of first class teachers who will educate learners especially at the secondary level of the Nigerian educational system