The major purpose of this study is to assess problems encountered teacherrnutilization in regional College of Teacher Education in Ethiopia. The samplernconsisted of 305 teachers and 10 Deans including vice deans who were drawnrnfrom 5 sampled regional colleges of teacher education. All the deans werernincluded in the study and teachers were selected by simple random samplerntechnique to achieve the objective of the study employed.rnStatistical data, together with questionnaire and unstructured interviews werernthe main instruments used to collect data. The data collected was analyzedrnusing various statistical tools such as percentage, mean, chi-square testrnstatistic and Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient. So that the testrnstatistic is identified at the level of significance a = 5% .rnFrom the results obtained, the majority of the college teachers were not beenrninterested to teach in regional colleges and were looking for another opportunityrnelsewhere. None of the teachers hold the Ph.D degree. In addition, there werernteachers assigned to teach subjects for which they were not prepared egornregional languages. However, the findings revealed that teacher assignment inrnthe colleges was carried out mostly on the basis of subject specialization.rnConcerning teaching assignment, there were unequal distribution of load withrnsome teachers having been over burdened and others underutilized. Thernprofessional support provided by various educational officers are inadequate.rnGenerally large class-size, lack of professional support, in adequate opportunityrnfor in service training, lack of attractive physical environment were the majorrnfactors that negatively affected the effective use of teachers in colleges.rnThe researcher, recommends action for the improvement of the situation byrnupgrading teachers through in-service and, therefore, further studies andrnemploying qualified management specialists as deans that can give teachersrnprofessional support.