The nation’s Polytechnics and colleges of education have been challenged to up their games in academic programmes’ innovation as part of efforts to position the country on the path of rapid development.
Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, made the call at a capacity building workshop for heads of selected institutions and staff of TETFund Centres of Excellence in Abuja.
He said Bogoro the two-day event was organised to ensure proper understanding of the concept of the centres by those that will be in charge of them.
Bogoro further urged Centres of Excellence in the polytechnics to focus on skills development, entrepreneurship and starts-up even as he lamented that most of the low and medium skilled jobs in the country are being handled by people from Francophone countries.
Also speaking at the event, which also had in attendance experts from the World Bank-sponsored African Centres of Excellence in universities, Executive Secretary of National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Muhammad Bugaje, commended Bogoro for his passion for institutionilisation of Research and Development.
TETFund had recently established Centres of Excellence in six polytechnics and six colleges of education,some of the institutions include Federal Polytechnics, Nasarawa,Bauchi, Kaduna, Federal College of Education, Adamawa and Ondo among others.
