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Abstract
Factors influencing students’ choice of teaching subjects in a Nigerian pre‐service primary teacher education programme were investigated. A marked imbalance in the pattern of choice of teaching subjects in favour of the humanities was found. Students’ choice of teaching subjects in the third year of the programme seems to be influenced by their level of performance in the chosen subjects during their first 2 years in the programme, job and further education opportunities offered by those subjects. The implications of these findings are examined in the paper.