Repositioning Polytechnic Education in Nigeria

REPOSITIONING POLYTECHNIC EDUCATION IN NIGERIA BY EZE, MARCELLUS MARK OKONKWO drumhead Instructor Office Technology and Management (OTM) Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechhic, Unwana, P M B 1007, Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria Email: mmoeze@yahoo.com markmarcel.eze6@gmail.com 08069398338, 08059844544, 08085026477 Abstract Education is the bedrock of any growth in any economy; whereas technical/technology program line is the solid base for any technological development. The problem place in this paper include: instability of educational policies, ugly infrastructural development and facilities, misfortunate and short(p) manpower and poor and inadequate machines and equipment. Others are poor funding and administrative malady; poor conditions of service; discrimination on the products of the system; poor computer program development and quality assurance and entry requirements and behaviour. This paper seek to discuss the polytechnic institute Education sector in Nigeria opposite number the education reforms with a view to suggesting ways of solving the place problems, and presented solutions to the various identified problems. It called for granting the Polytechnics University charter or status, allowing them to run the contrary programme pathways ND/HND, B.Sc.

, higher degrees and Short Courses. It recommended abolishment of spare centers by the various ordinary level examination bodies and commended JAMB for unify its entrance examination into the Nigerian tertiary institutions from the 2010/2011 academic session. Introduction Polytechnic education, the third category of tertiary education in Nigeria dates gumption to early 1948 with the establishments of Yaba (College) Technology; Kaduna (1956), and IMT Enugu (1958). Their main functions were to centralize and improve the breeding of technical officers, originally done by the departmental in-service pedagogy centres, such as Nigerian Railways (1901); the Survey Department (1908); the chain mail and... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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