EDUCATION

Polytechnic education is future of Nigeria—NBTE Chair

&NewLine;<p>The  Board Chairman of National Board for Technical Education&comma; NBTE&comma; Professor Modupe Adelabu has described polytechnic education as the future of Nigeria&comma; saying t vocational and technical education are answers to sustainable development of the country&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adelabu made this disclosure at&NewLine;Moshood Abiola Polytechnic stakeholders meeting &nbsp&semi;Abeokuta which had Ogun State government officials&NewLine;led by the Special Adviser to the governor on Tertiary Education&comma; &nbsp&semi;Professor &nbsp&semi;Mrs Sidi Osho&comma; &nbsp&semi;members of the Polytechnic&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;management team&comma; &nbsp&semi;academic and non-academic&NewLine;staff union executives as well as representatives of students&&num;8217&semi; union in&NewLine;attendance&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to the NBTE boss who was&NewLine;on oversight visit to MAPOLY&comma; &nbsp&semi;Nigeria is destined for greatness in line with&NewLine;the ideals of her founding fathers&period; So&comma; the country must tap into the manpower&NewLine;and technical resources offered by polytechnic institutions across the&NewLine;country&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While commending the management and&NewLine;staff of MAPOLY for the smooth and steady running of academic activities&NewLine;despite the turbulent times it had gone through&comma; the NBTE boss urged the&NewLine;institution to continue to deliver in line with its mandates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adelabu who was visibly impressed by&NewLine;the number of doctorate degree holders in the polytechnic&comma; put at over seventy&comma;&NewLine;further enjoined the staffers to make their professional and personal&NewLine;developments a priority&period; She added that it is important &nbsp&semi;to attend peer reviewed and international&NewLine;conferences and write qualitative academic papers&comma; to improve their&NewLine;productivity&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She disclosed that federal government&NewLine;is ready to finance vocational and technical education as it has secured&NewLine;support of World Bank to boost same&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Also speaking during the parley&comma;&NewLine;Special Adviser on Tertiary Education&comma; Osho&comma; restated the commitment of the&NewLine;state government to support MAPOLY and ensure it takes back its original&NewLine;position as a leading light in technical education in the country&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Rector&comma; Dr&period; Samson Odedina&comma; in&NewLine;his welcome address&comma; said though the institution was faced with some challenges&NewLine;in the past two years&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s accreditation was never withdrawn and the location&NewLine;was not changed from Abeokuta&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>While appreciating the government&NewLine;for the support it has offered the institution&comma; Odedina called for cooperation&NewLine;of NBTE in considering the proposal of MAPOLY for accreditation of new courses including&NewLine;ones &nbsp&semi;due for re-accreditation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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