[3] Wiawso College of Education (popularly called Legon of the West) traces its origin to Kumasi.
A. Quarcoo, senior house master, Mr. E. O. Nortey, tutor and Mr. R. S. A. Kwarteng as the college clerk.
Otumfoo Sir Agyemang Prempeh II, the Asantehene, in the company of an interim board of the college paid a visit to the college on February 16, 1952, to add his royal blessings to the birth of WATICO.
On 29 October 1964 the college was moved to Sefwi Wiawso (municipal district) in the Western Region.
Students threatened to disrupt the ceremonies to protest delays in funding which they said were caused by corruption.
[8] In 2013 Nicholas Okota-Wilson, an alumnus of Wiawso College of Education, was judged the National Best Teacher Trainee in 2013 with a record-breaking GPA.