NBTE Team Lead handing over copies of the Accreditation report to the Rector FedPoly Bauchi.
By Abubakar Baba Ahmad.
The National Board for Technical Education NBTE has urged the Federal Polytechnic Bauchi to work towards bridging the infrastructure and manpower deficits, as well as identified teaching and learning aids for quality educational delivery.
The Director of Polytechnic Programmes and Team Lead NBTE Accreditation to the institution Dr Fatima Kabir Umar made the call at the 2024/25 accreditation, resource inspection, resource verification Exit briefing at the 510 lecture hall of the polytechnic in Bauchi.
Dr Fatima Kabir represented by a Staff of the board Builder Adesina Oluade said the 78 programmes lined up for accreditation have peculiar challenges to include inadequate impresse to manage the various departments, lack of students handbook, journals and epileptic power supply, and called for proactive steps to address the problems.
She said the exercise which is aimed at strengthening quality assurance mechanisms, assured the Polytechnic of fair and transparent assessment.
“I want to appreciate the polytechnic for the warm reception to us and also thank the resource persons for accepting to perform the task despite the short notice.”
“The activity we are here for is accreditation, resource inspection and resource verification and I’ll like to acknowledge the facilities we’ve seen on ground and be rest assured that we’ll do a fair and transparent assessment”, Director Polytechnic Programmes notes.
The Team Lead used the medium to appreciate the polytechnic for the warm reception and resource persons for accepting invitation to partake in the exercise despite short notice.
Dr Fatima Kabir later presented the Technical Report which contains the outcome of the accreditation, resource inspection and verification exercise to the Polytechnic Rector for study and consideration.
……..FedPoly Bauchi install CCTV cameras to check Exams Malpractice, Insecurity.
Meanwhile, the Rector Federal Polytechnic Bauchi Malam Sani Usman said the institution has embarked on the installation of CCTV cameras to tackle examination malpractice among students and other criminal activities within the campus.
Malam Sani Usman who stated this in an interview with journalists shortly after briefing the NBTE 2024/25 Accreditation, Resource Inspection and Resource Verification Team at the institution in Bauchi, said the step is to strengthen academic excellence.
He disclosed that the institution is currently working on a project with TETFund to mount solar-based CCTV cameras in and out of the classrooms to improve security and tackle other forms of malpractice that take place within the campus environment.
“We are also working on a TETFund research that has been granted since last two years. The research is almost completed so that CCTVs can also be put outside of the classroom environment to tackle insecurity and to tackle some of these examination fraud that take place outside of the classroom”, the Rector highlights.
On the issue of inadequate manpower, the Rector said the bureaucratic process under the IPPIS system contributed significantly to the delay in employment of staff, and assured that the process is at an advanced stage as approval for recruitment would soon be granted.
Malam Sani Usman noted that the school management is working to ensure practical coverage supercedes theoretical aspects of educational delivery in line with the mandate of the institution.
Education Correspondent Abubakar Baba Ahmad reports that some of programmes that partook in the accreditation process include ND/HND Crime Management, Co-operative Economics, Taxation, Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, Mass Communication, Mechatronics, Agriculture Technology among others.
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