Historical background of gmpcc

Green Meadows Professional Childcare College Nigeria was established on 10th of February 2015.

The college started its operation on the 3rd of September 2020. We currently have our administrative office 15 Isheri road, ogba, Ikeja, Lagos.

We offer specialized training on Early Childhood Education for existing and intending teachers, and teacher’s assistants. Administrative courses for school owners  

We aim to provide a professional but warm environment, where learners can be comfortable. We believe it is vital to get to know the persons as we are entrusting them with children who are priceless.

The course is of the highest quality and the college is accredited to run skills development programs and offer certificate in Early Childhood Development with a National diploma

The college has an international affiliation

The Awakening

Education, they say, is the right of every child and must not be denied them for any reason. This has been the assertion of the World Summit on the state of global children, which has led to the inclusion and expansion of early childhood care and education in the global Education for All programme(EFA). Nigeria has pledged its commitment to this, with the recent inauguration of the policy on this educational arm.

It is clearly evident that early years’ experience has a significant influence on the all-round development and the later lives of any child. The influence, which may be either positive or negative, has been emphasized across inter- disciplinary research (Awoniyi 1991,US Early Childhood Head Start Task Force, 2001).It alerts us to consider the quality of education in the early childhood years seriously. Bush 2001 stated that the years between birth to five years are the foundation upon which successful (or otherwise) lives are built. At the global level, this fact is recognized and every nation is working assiduously towards providing quality early years education and care for the very youngest children.

Nigeria, in accordance with the Jomiten declaration on Education for All (EFA) in Thailand in 1990, signed up in order to provide quality and comprehensive early childhood education and care for all preschoolers. Nigeria had early childhood centers prior to this but it was left for the private sector, which either provided a substandard service or charged very high fees, thereby making this educational provision inaccessible to every child.

The Federal Government of Nigeria is now responsive to early childhood education by virtue of its inclusion in the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Program and even moved a step further to inaugurate early childhood education and policy on 8 October 2007(Punch, 9 October 2007, p.16). This constitutes a step in the right direction towards the provision of good early years childhood education. Yet, some pertinent issues need to be examined if the goal of this system is to provide the best possible education to all Nigerian children.