Tag: POLYTECHNICS

Tinubu orders review of Governing Board days after ASUUs rejection

Aminu Imam
Tinubu orders

President Bola Tinubu has directed a total and comprehensive review of the recently announced Governing Boards of tertiary institutions in Nigeria before the inauguration and retreat being planned for the nominees. Recall that the Ministry of Education had on Saturday released a list of Governing Councils for 111 federal tertiary institutions in the country. In a statement issued yesterday, Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Tinubu said the review is necessary because of the public reaction trailing the constitution of the Boards by the Ministry…

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NBTE says HND holders to be employed as assistant lecturers in polytechnics

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) said on Monday that holders of Higher National Diploma (HND) would soon be employed as Assistant Lecturers in Polytechnics and Monotechnics. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Prof. Idris Bugaje, disclosed this while speaking in an interview in Kaduna. Bugaje pointed out that currently only degree holders were being employed in polytechnics as assistant lecturers. He lamented that HND holders were relegated as technicians and technologists in laboratories and workshops in the polytechnic sector, which he described as gross injustice. Why should somebody…

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Polytechnic lecturers to begin nationwide strike April 6

Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, (ASUP), has declared a nationwide strike from April 6, 2021 over alleged “culture of neglect by the government on issues affecting the technological education sub-sector”. ASUP President, Anderson U Ezeibe, disclosed this to newsmen at the end of the 99th meeting of the National Executive Council of the union at Hassan Usman Polytechnic, Katsina. According to him, the industrial action was informed by six key factors affecting polytechnic education. He stated government has consistently failed to address them over the years. The issues, according…

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Polytechnics are neglected – ASUP

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Polytechnic lecturers have claimed that the institutions had suffered continued neglect and urged the Federal Government to change the tide so as to improve the quality of technical manpower in the country. Mr Anderson Ezeibe, National President, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), while briefing journalists at ASUPs 98th NEC meeting in Jos, regretted the utter neglect of technical and vocational education sub-sector. The sub-sector is replete with details of neglect in terms of governance processes, funding, policy direction of government and wellbeing of members of staff. Public Polytechnics and…

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