TARKA (Sundiata Post) – Benue The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), has commenced accreditation exercise for six new courses at the Federal Polytechnic, Wannue, in Benue.
Mr Ogah Ngbede, NBTE’s Director of Polytechnics Programmes, told newsmen on Friday that the exercise would last for two days.
He recalled that the institution secured full accreditation for two, outof the five courses it presented to NBTE in 2023.“
We are here to look at the claims made by the institution because it has requested to commence some new programmes.”We are here to ensure that the right thing is done and ensure that the school is of high quality,” he said.
The director, who decried poor funding of polytechnic education in Nigeria, called on goverment at all levels to ensure adequate funds were allocated to the education sector.“
The major problem affecting polytechnic education in this country is finance.”Let me use this opportunity to call on the government at all levels to inject more funds into the polytechnic system.“
Technical education is a low hanging fruit which this country can use to escape poverty; technical education all over the world has become a major currency which nations are using to escape poverty.“
When we pay adequate attention to our polytechnics, students that graduate from these institutions can hit the ground running because they have the necessary tools to be job providers and not job seekers,”
he said Earlier, the Rector of the institution, Dr Tyover Ashinya, had listed the courses presented for accreditation to include Business Management, Public Administration, Agricultural Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science
He said the institution had the adequate manpower and infrastructure to effectively run the six new courses.”We are willing to improve on all necessary areas that need improvement to enable these new courses secure full accreditation,” the Rector said.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)