The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics has rejected the reviewed schemes of service for Nigerian polytechnics prepared by the National Board for Technical Education at a stakeholders’ meeting held recently in Abuja. The National President of the union, Philip Ogunsipe, said in a statement released on Thursday that the union’s rejection of the reviewed…
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…
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has reiterated that Polytechnic graduates should acquire the necessary knowledge and entrepreneurial skills and not only paper qualifications. The Executive Secretary of the Board Prof. Idris Bugaje, stated this at the opening ceremony of a four-day workshop organised in collaboration with Danglo Management and Financial Limited, and sponsored…
The National Board for Technical Education has called for a compulsory 50 per cent inclusion of skill acquisition in the curriculum for secondary school students. This, NBTE said would help the students to have a better understanding of their interests and abilities, and improve them in decision-making, thereby leading to their personal and professional development….