New Era College of Education embraces excellence, competence, commitments, and professionalism as components of success in training responsible teachers and citizens of the world.

A teacher training institution that produces globally competitive educators imbued with Christian Values, discipline and lifelong service to mankind.

Provide equality education anchored on Christian values with the prime purpose of bringing honor and glory to God.

The College Aims To:

1. Train would-be teachers to become morally upright whose Christian values are essential in serving the country and humanity for the glory and honor of the Almighty God.

2. Strengthen the higher order thinking skills of would-be teachers by providing them with appropriate learning tasks, experiences, and environment.

3. Upgrade the competencies of would-be teachers for the utilization of effective learning delivery systems and assessment strategies.

4. Equip would-be teachers with new knowledge through the conduct of functional and quality research works to meet the needs of 21st Century global partners.

5. Sustain and strengthen Community Outreach Programs responsive to the needs of the partner communities, especially the deprived, depressed, and other under- privileged members of society and other stakeholders.

The College of Education (CED) was established in 1983 and has been one of the foremost colleges at the New Era University. It is a Center of Teacher Training for students who plan to become teachers in the future. It is a home base to some undergraduate organizations, which serve as training grounds for students’ planning and leadership skills. Its mother organization, the Educators’ Alliance Developing on Optimum Service (EducADOS) supervises the conduct of activities sponsored by CED’s umbrella student organizations.These clubs are the following :

GENESIS the organization for all BEED students
SMART a club for those majoring in Mathematics and Science

At present, the CED offers degrees for two programs:
        Bachelor of Elementary
        Education (BEED) and Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSE).

There are three degrees under BEED Program, namely:
        Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED)
        Bachelor of Elementary Education with Specialization in Early Childhood Education (BEED -ECED)
        Bachelor of Elementary Education with Specialization in Inclusive and Special Needs Education (BEED-SNED)

For BSE, there are seven degrees that are currently offered:
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in English (BSE - English)
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in Filipino
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in Mathematics
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in Social Studies
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in Science
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in MAPE
        Bachelor of Secondary Education, Major in Technology and Livelihood Education.

Tracing the CED’s historical background, it was in 1985, when it started as an Institute merged with the Institute of Arts and Sciences. The Institute of Education as it was formerly called was primarily led by Dr. Amanda Mejorada as its first dean.

By 1989, the Institute of Education (IEd) was separated from the initial merger. This newly separated, independent IEd was led by Dr. Zenaida Soriano. When Dr. Soriano took a leave to work abroad ,Dr, Francisca F. Reyes was assigned as OIC for a while. Dr. Lydia L. Libunao who was then the principal in the Elementary Department took the helm from Dr. Francisca F. Reyes and became the dean. The Institute of Education was renamed to the College of Education upon her appointment . Her stewardship of the college lasted for almost 29 years until her untimely demise in 2019.Dr. Libunao led the initiative to apply for voluntary accreditation with when the University was granted its university status in 1996 and also pioneered together with her predecessor Dr. Corazon Liwayway the launching of the Summer Kindergarten Program while being the principal of the Elementary department in 1986.This became the most sustainable outreach program of the college, Dr. Libunao started the advocacy when she was principal and she brought it with her when she was promoted as dean. The faculty members from the Elementary department were also tapped as trainors even though the program was under the CED. They were the manpower as the organizers visited several Church districts to train volunteer teachers and para-teachers. This program still continues even during the pandemic and up to the present and has produced graduates who became volunteer teachers themselves.

In 2000, the college put up a laboratory school inside the campus to serve as a laboratory school to further train future teachers. This was an innovation initiated when the college was moving higher to its accreditation status. The first head teacher was Dr. Avelina Ledesma, who took hold of it for three months then the assignment was transferred to Dr. Corazon Liwayway where she led for four years. Later with the approval of the school administration the laboratory school was merged back to the basic education department. The whole basic education department was declared as the laboratory for the teacher education program of the university.

In 2007 the college applied for a permit to operate the ladderized course, Bachelor in Secondary Education Major in Technology and Livelihood Education (BSEd – TLE), and Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) programs. This was in coordination with the School of Graduate Studies, NEU-Open University, College of Business Administration with its Masters in Business Administration,(MBA), College of Arts and Sciences, (CAS) and College of Communication (COC) and recently the College of Informatics and Computing Science

The College of Education leaped in its level in March 2008 and became a Center of Teacher Training Institution (COTTIs). That was earned in its Level III Accreditation visitation by the PACUCOA (Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation) on October 19-20, 2015.

Since then, the College of Education has continued to produce licensed teachers, even topnoptchers. Among the topnotchers of the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) were Dr. Lilibeth F. Taa ( a CED faculty) who got the 1st place in the 1996 board exam, and this was followed by Ms. Celia Concepcion O. Gregorio who also ranked 1st in 2000, and the most recent, Mr. Dante V. Dela Merced who clinched the 2nd place in August 2014.

In 2019,Dr. Corazon V. Liwayway, the associate dean, took over the helm. It was during the stewardship of Dr. Liwayway that the College of Education revitalized its marketing efforts to motivate and encourage more students to enroll in the college, when the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) approved the revisions in the curriculum based on the new CMO’s promulgated. The marketing strategy was to mobilize the CED graduating class to visit Grade 12 classes and introduce to them the CED programs. Such marketing strategy was effective and yielded numerous enrollees to the college.

Year 2020, the pandemic and a new normal in education and learning set in. Seven (7) faculty members took a leave, while others retired. With this, the College of Education welcomed new blood faculty members who were younger and technology savvy. As the new normal progressed, the CED faculty members were enjoined to attend and participate in trainings to gain competencies that enabled them to conduct synchronous and asynchronous classes via the Learning Management System (LMS) that was put up some ten years ago but was not fully taken advantage of before. The rigorous training underwent for months in between teaching to master the management of the system. The CED faculty members were able to upload modules in the New Era University Virtual Learning Environment (NEUVLE). Through this system, the College of Education has had enrollees abroad. Students from different parts of the world were able to pursue their education and avail the new learning modality which can be accessed through the improved technology.

With the new normal, the school calendar underwent changes as well. The CED graduating class had their virtual commencement exercises before the year ended.

Furthermore, this pandemic brought the heroic deed of the NEU Alumni Association officers. These officers actively answered the call for help of the students who were locked down or quarantined during the year as the Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) mandated guidelines to prevent the effects of the pandemic. On the other hand, the conduct of the outreach program of the CED, Summer Pre-Kindergarten Program in cooperation with the Christian Family Organization of the Church, was accomplished despite the corona virus challenges. On the other side of the academe, the deans and faculty members were required to submit accomplishment reports (AR’s) weekly to give feedback to the school administrators like what was practiced in the public schools. These AR’s were the basis for the provision of teacher salaries.

Year 2021, the year started with an aid given to faculty members and staff to at least ease the effect of the pandemic. The faculty members and staff of the CED received a sack of rice from the NEU Alumni Association. After a year of struggles and challenges, many of the students had many things to be thankful for. Teaching and learning were delivered as expected. Students undergoing issues due to the corona virus were given due consideration with compassionate leniency as a school policy. Teachers on their part attended online conferences and webinars whenever they were available. The CED even spearheaded the Book Writing project of the school, where the teachers in the Integrated School were encouraged and motivated to write their own books in the subjects they have been teaching. This project was requested by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and the Dean was instructed to initiate the project and called for meetings and training for the Integrated School teachers. These acts, the CED believed, were preparation of the faculty towards providing world class quality teaching and learning.

The CED is known as a high performing institution in the field of education. It is a Center for Teacher Training, and produces graduates who are employed as private and public school teachers in the National Capital Region. To name a few: Dr. Aldwin O. Felipe wrote, DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIORS OF CHILDREN IN REGULAR AND SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS: IMPLICATION FOR CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT; Prof. Allyson Kaye L. Plaza, a 2018 CED alumna and the current dean of the College of Education, University of Manila presented a research paper entitled A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW ON 5G AS THE NEWEST INNOVATION IN CELLULAR NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, during the 2022 ASAIHL Conference at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Eliva Press, an International Academic Publishing House published the paper which is now available in Amazon USA, Germany, and France. Recently, our 2014 alumnus by the name of Bryan Lazaro was recognized by Google as a Certified Educator I, a badge of achievement granted to educators who passed the tests and were able to use most of the Google applications in classroom teaching and were required to take the examinations every three years.

The College of Education (CED) has a roster of highly qualified teachers and professors who are seasoned practitioners in the academe. It has a track record of high passing rate in the Board Examinations which is over and above that of the national passing rate. As it was granted a Level 3 Re-accredited status by PACUCOA in 2019, the College of Education, hopefully will apply as a Center for Excellence in the field of Teacher Education soon.