Section 1: Establishment and objectives of Federal University of Education Pankshin, Plateau State.

1 There is established the Federal University of Education Pankshin, Plateau State (in this Act referred to as "the University").

2 The University-
a is a body corporate with perpetual succession, and a common seal; and
b may sue or be sued in its corporate name.

3 The University is a training institution for the development of teacher education in the country.

4 The University shall be supervised by the Federal Ministry of Education through the National Universities Commission (NUC) which is responsible for approving and regulating all academic programmes run in the University, to ensure quality compliance and provide funds for academic and research programmes, infrastructures and remunerations of employees.

5 The objectives of the University are to-
a encourage the advancement of learning and to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction;
b develop and offer academic and professional programmes leading to the award of certificates, first degrees, post-graduate, diploma and higher degrees with emphasis on planning, developmental and adaptive skills in education, technology, applied science, agriculture, commerce, arts, social science, humanities, management and allied professional disciplines;
c produce socially mature experts in education with capabilities not to only understand the educational needs of Nigeria as a nation, but also to exploit existing educational infrastructure and improve on it to develop new ones;
d act as agents and catalysts for effective educational system, through post graduate training, research and innovation, for effective economic utilisation and conservation of the country's human resources;
e bring quality change in education by focusing on teacher education through teaching and learning innovations;
f collaborate with other national and international institutions involved in training, research and development of education with a view to promoting governance, leadership and management skills among educational managers;
g identify educational needs of the society with a view to finding solutions to them within the context of overall national development;
h provide and promote sound basic education training as a foundation for the development of Nigeria, taking into account indigenous culture and the need to enhance national unity;
i provide higher education and foster a systematic advancement of the science and art of teacher education;
j provide for instruction in such branches of teacher education as it may deem necessary to make provision for research advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such manner as it may determine;
k provide teachers with operational competence for teaching in pre- tertiary institutions, basic, senior secondary schools and non- formal educational institutions; and
l undertake any other activity that is appropriate for a university of education of the highest standard.