The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has vowed to sustain its crackdown on mushroom institutions parading as polytechnics.
This comes as the board announced a landmark collaboration with MOC-LLC, a United States-based research and training body, to introduce Applied Interdisciplinary Engineering and Technology Research into Nigerian polytechnics.
This, it said, would bring fresh initiatives to transform the sector into a hub of innovation, research, and job creation.
The NBTE Director of Polytechnic and Allied Programmes, Dr Fatimah Kabir Umar, said the agency would not relent in its fight against unaccredited entities undermining the government’s commitment to quality education.
“We have been fighting against mushroom entities calling themselves what they are not… We won’t stop to fight such an establishment in the interest of safeguarding what is best for the nation.
“Yes, we know that there is no way we won’t have a few bad eggs around, but we shall continue to fight them and ensure that they do not stand in the way of the government’s commitment to the delivery of qualitative education at all levels,” Dr Umar said.
She urged the lecturers in the institution to engage in personal development and register with appropriate professional bodies.
The NBTE director lauded the management of the institution for complementing the Federal Government’s efforts to provide qualitative tertiary education for Nigerians.
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