The Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti has been commended for its devotion to sustenance of qualitative practice.
Giving the commendation at the exit interview of 18 programmes respectively visited for verification, Resource Inspection and accreditation, the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education NBTE, Prof. Idris M. Bugaje appreciated the Institution’s Management, for providing the enabling environment for the visit as well as sustenance of quality in the Institutions’ programme.
The Executive Secretary, who spoke through the Board’s Director of Polytechnic programmes, Architect Ngbede Ogoh stated that the NBTE’s Quality Assurance Team is a partner in progress, who came on the visit to ascertain the achievements made since the last of such visit to the Institution.
Arc. Ogoh emphasized that the essence of every accreditation exercise remains a quality control assessment to make sure that the students were given enough opportunity to learn and be able to hit the ground running at the end of their programmes in the Institution.
He added that this would hopefully help the students in establishing their own businesses, become employers of labour and in turn make the Institution proud.
The Executive Secretary also observed that ever since the NBTE’s Quality Assurance Team have been visiting, the Polytechnic had always been in the forefront of technological advancement by maintaining such good structures with an enabling environment for proper teaching and learning.
While encouraging the Polytechnic not to relent in its desires to remain a prime choice among Nigeria’s Polytechnics, the NBTE Director also hinted that six more programmes in Agriculture related fields are to be visited in the next two weeks.
Responding, the Rector, Dr. Dayo Oladebeye stated that he was pleased to receive the accreditation team and noted that the essence of the review exercise has been well justified by the team following the exit interview where the strength and weaknesses of the Institution had been pointed out for the purpose of improvement.
Dr. Oladebeye said that the Institution has been working assiduously on the infrastructural deficit, but noted that the major complaint has been hinged on finance, since as it were, the Polytechnic Sector have been undeservedly poorly funded and without adequate attention by succeeding governments.
The Rector stated that despite the humongous paucity of fund, the Institution had been able to produce various fabricated equipment through the help of some key department in the Polytechnic.
He however assured that areas of deficiencies pointed out by the accreditation panels to each programme will be looked into and efforts will be made to improve on them.
In the separate remarks of the accreditation panels and Divisional Heads of Visited Programmes, which was corroborated by the NBTE Zonal Director, Mr. Olubode Majiyagbe, the Polytechnic was commended for its investment in infrastructures and the purchase of equipment in the schools, despite the apparent paucity of funds.
Each Panel also made recommendations for the immediate purchase of other critical and required equipment for teaching and research in the laboratories, workshops and studio respectively, which should be of paramount importance.
The team while observing that the current sitting capacity of the library and current holdings in respect of books and journals are adequate in quality, also stressed that there was an urgent need to purchase more books and journals, especially with local contents or to be produced by the Lecturers for the consumption of the students.
In a related development, all is now set to receive another set of NBTE’s accreditation team who are expected to be in the Polytechnic from Monday 24th to Wednesday 26th October, 2022, for visitation to six other programmes, making a total of 24 programmes covered in the 2022 NBTE accreditation exercise.