Story from Najib SANI, Bauchi
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), on Tuesday, visited the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi for accreditation and reaccreditation of new and existing courses in the school.
Rector of the institution, Sunusi Gumau, who received the NBTE team explained that 14 of the courses are newly introduced in the institution, eight out of the 14 are National Diplomas, six are Higher National Diplomas while the rest are existing programmes.
He added that the new national diplomas are in urban and regional planning, purchasing and supply, taxation, computer engineering, fisheries, cooperatives and economic management, crime management and environmental science.
“While the six HND programmes include two courses in animal health and production, three under science laboratory and one under library science”. He noted.
In his remarks, the executive secretary of NBTE Idris Bugaje represented by a deputy director in charge of the science division on the board, Fidelis Ogbonna, said they were supposed to come last year for the accreditation of the programmes but could not due to COVID 19 lockdown.
He stated that the mandate of the board is to assess the facilities, manpower of technical educational institutions and ascertain if they are fit to run their programmes or not.
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