The House of Representatives Committee on Polytechnics and other Higher Technical Education has charged rectors of federal polytechnics to be innovative in introducing courses and programmes aimed at helping potentials of persons in their respective catchment areas.
Chairman of the committee, Hon. Kayode Laguda, made the call at a session with rectors and management staff of Federal Polytechnic Kaura-Namoda, Zamfara state; Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, Federal Polytechnic Kaltungo, Gombe state and the Federal Polytechnic Bali, Taraba state.
Addressing participants after submissions by Rector of the Federal Polytechnic Kauran-Namoda, Zamfara State, Jonathan Murdi, Chairman of the Committee said, as an institution in the state, it should introduce courses in Geology, Mining and other related courses in order to help educate youths and help in rescuing them from becoming bandits or their agents.
“Like we discussed earlier, we were talking about, why don’t you have courses in mining in your place. Because if you have courses in mining, some of these gold and things that they find in the soil there, they’ll be coming to do the test in your school, which is also a source of IGR for you. So, things shouldn’t be right under your nose and you skip it like it’s impossible. It is the happenings of today that you would apply. And that is part of what they call innovation. So, please look into this,” he stated.
He said, “We’ll be glad to hear that our students are not reducing, they’ve started increasing. And all this can be done by the standard that you keep, or that you give to the students. If we are producing A-list students, and by the time we start working with places and they are giving good results, you will be surprised the multiplier effect that that will bring to you “
