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March - May, 2019 Vol. 4 No. 14 ISSN NO:2141-9590 Snippets on NBTE Board Chairman Minister Presents Operational Licences To 65 TVET Institutions Prof. Modupe Adelabu Executive Secretary Dr. Masa'udu A. Kazaure, mni NBTE Vision and Mission Vision To be a world class regulatory body for the promotion of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Nigeria Mission To promote the production of skilled technical and professional manpower for the development and sustenance of the national economy Core Mandate To coordinate all aspects of Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony Anwukah (arrowed) presenting operational licence to one of the Technical and Vocational Education newly approved institutions; on his immediate right is NBTE Governing Board Chairman Prof. Modupe Adelabu falling outside university education he Honourable Minister of based economy that is largely NBTE Statutes th Education, Mal. Adamu dependent on the skills of the · NBTE enabling Act No. 9 of 11 January, 1977 A d a m u h a s p r e s e n t e d workforce, noting also that TVET in operational licences to 65 Nigeria requires very urgent and · Education (National Minimum TTVET institutions comprising 18 Private decisive action to reposition it for Standard and Establishment of Polytechnics, two Private Monotechnics, the nation's technological take Institution Act No. 16 of August 1985 four Colleges of Health Science & off. and Act No. 9 of 1993 Technology, 33 Innovation Enterprise Mal. Adamu further stated that the Institutions (IEIs) and eight Vocational shortage of manpower across all No. of Institutions under NBTE Purview Enterprise Institutions (VEIs). sectors of the Nigerian economy §Polytechnics 131 At the ceremony which was held on coupled with the challenge of Monday, 29 April, 2019 at the Federal expanding access to accommodate § Colleges of Agriculture 33 Ministry of Education Podium, Abuja, the teeming Nigerian youths in §Colleges of Health Mal. Adamu congratulated the quest for tertiary education Sciences 50 proprietors for meeting the requisite necessitated the private sector § guidelines for the establishment of such participation in tertiary education Specialized Institutions 31 institutions and urged them to be resolute management and administration. §Innovation Enterprise Institutions and focused on the cardinal objectives “It is on this premise that the (IEIs) 151 that guide the operations of the government established Vocational programmes they have been granted Enterprise Institutions (VEIs) and §Vocational Enterprise Institutions(VEIs) 79 approval. Innovation Enterprise Institutions The minister stated that the present (IEIs) in 2007 in its bid to impart the § Technical Colleges 119 administration is working hard to necessary skills to drive the wheel Total: 594 reposition the economy to a knowledge- Cont. on Page 2 Editorial Committee: Suleiman S. Gwarzo (Chairman), Lawal Y. Hafiz, Chima A. Ejiofor, Ansa O. Ndem, Esther A. Damisa, Fatima Abubakar, Nafisa Abba (Members), Jacob A. Abang (Editor/Secretary), Aliyu I. Hassan (Graphics) Abdullahi Isah (Cameraman) website: www.nbte.gov.ng, All enquiries to: [email protected] Minister Presents Operational Licence... Cont’d from front page not grant any of progress and development”, he financial support added. to the private Represented at the occasion by the institutions. Permanent Secretary, Federal In a welcome Ministry of Education, Arc. Sonny a d d r e s s , t h e S.T. Echono, Mal. Adamu stated E x e c u t i v e that the country presently has a S e c r e t a r y o f total of 56 private polytechnics, National Board for 152 IEIs and 84 VEIs spread across T e c h n i c a l the country. He reiterated E d u c a t i o n government's ban on study centres ( N B T E ) , D r . or satellite campuses and urged the M a s a ' u d u A . proprietors to shun any act inimical Kazaure said that to the stated rules governing the the establishment establishment of their institutions. The Permanent Secretary FME, Arc Sonny Echono (left) presenting o f p r i v a t e operational license to the Proprietor of Ashi Polytechnic, Benue State In his remarks, the Hon. Minister of polytechnics, IEIs State for Education, Prof Anthony and VEIs is part of government's Institutions and 119 Technical Anwuka informed the proprietors efforts aimed at addressing the Colleges. that the Federal Government will problem of access to higher He added that from 2007 to date, education by providing a veritable government has granted approval to alternative route through the TVET 56 private polytechnics, 152 sector. Innovation Enterprise Institutions Dr. Kazaure noted that the NBTE and 79 Vocational Enterprise has been encouraging the Institutions in addition to Colleges establishment of more private of Health Sciences and Technology. polytechnics and Innovative While explaining the Board's quest Enterprise Institutions in order to to ensure demand-driven curricula, diversify and expand access for the Executive Secretary said over prospective applicants. 56 curricula have been reviewed He further stated that the Board has from 2016 to date while some under its purview a total of 131 curricula were also developed in Polytechnics, 33 Colleges of new and emerging fields including Agriculture, 50 Colleges of Health HND Explosive Ordinance, Science and Technology, 31 ND/HND Railway Engineering Specialized Institutions, 152 Technology, HND Aviation ES NBTE, Dr. M. A. Kazaure while Innovation Enterprise Institutions, delivering his welcome address at the M a n a g e m e n t , N D C e m e n t ceremony 7 9 Vo c a t i o n a l E n t e r p r i s e Cont. on Page 3 Cross section of proprietors of Private Polytechnics, Colleges of Health Science and Technology, Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEIs) and Vocational Enterprise Instititutions during the license presentation ceremony in Abuja. Page 2 Education Minister Presents His Scorecard i g e r i a ' s E d u c a t i o n “This is aside from the N25 Minister, Adamu Adamu, billion just approved for Non Tuesday identified his public universities. These successes and major failure as figures have nothing to do education minister. w i t h p e r s o n n e l a n d Mr. Adamu who spoke recently at overhead costs in the his valedictory press conference education sector, which are also well over a trillion in Abuja said his inability to naira,” he said. reduce Nigeria' out of school He explained that the N25 children despite his pledge to do billion was recently so was a shame on him. r e l e a s e d t o p u b l i c He apologised to Nigerians over universities to pay earned his inability to fulfill his promise academic allowances of to reduce the number of out-of- lecturers. school children by half before the Also speaking, the Minister end of his tenure. of State for Education, Prof. The minister said the status of Anthony Anwukah, said the Nigeria as having the highest e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f a number of out-of-school children s e c o n d a r y e d u c a t i o n globally “was a big mark of shame Mallam Adamu Adamu commission to oversee to him as a person and to the entire Hon. Minister of Education operations of secondary nation.” must apologise for this but I believe schools in the country has been According to the minister, the the new minister will bring this approved by the government. concerns of this administration number down,” he said. Prof. Anwukah said the approval have been two-fold: “to find an On education funding, Mal. Adamu was earlier given by President empirical means of getting the said the Buhari administration has Muhammadu Buhari. actual figures and best ways to injected about N1.3 trillion into the According to him, the government reducing the number to the barest education sector in the last four has also reviewed downward the minimum.” years. charges in Unity Colleges from He said Nigeria has one of the “The UBEC interventions in states N83, 000 to N49, 500. highest number of out-of-school have recorded a total of N350 He said the government had pegged children in Sub-Saharan Africa” billion while TETFund and NEEDS PTA (parents, teachers association) and perhaps in the world and Assessment interventions have levy at N5, 000 across schools and ranked only second to Pakistan.” recorded N857 billion with the ended arbitrary charges of N75,000 “When I came on board, I main ministry and other agencies which had nearly inhibited access promised to bring the number of recording N86 billion totaling N1.3 to Unity Colleges. out-of-school children to half. I trillion in the last four years. Culled from Premium Times of Minister Presents Operational Licence... 22nd May 2019 Cont’d from page 2 Engineering Technology noted that one of the teething a n d H N D challenges facing the Board was the Mechatronics proliferation of illegal institutions Engineering across the country. This he said has Technology. n e c e s s i t a t e d c a r r y i n g o u t Speaking on administrative investigations on the dangers of institutions to establish if they are o p e r a t i n g operating legally or not. s a t e l l i t e Among the dignitaries at the campuses and occasion was the NBTE Board ES NBTE, Dr. M.A.