Management of FedPOLY and ITF Bauchi Area Office in a Group photograph.
By Abubakar Baba Ahmad.
The Industrial Training Fund ITF has warned Employers and Organisations against rejecting Students deployed for the mandatory Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme, SIWES.
The Area Manager Bauchi Office of the ITF Mr Adashe Paul sounded the warning in an interview with our Education Correspondent Abubakar Baba Ahmad shortly after the opening of the 2025 SIWES Orientation of three thousand prospective IT Students of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi held at the 510 Hall in Bauchi.
Mr Adashe Paul represented by the Head of Training Mrs Nanzem Yilshuut said the act establishing the fund mandates every organisation to accept students for industrial attachment and any employer who is in breach of the provisions is liable to conviction/sanctions.
While urging the students to follow all the guidelines and requirements provided by the ITF to ensure a successful industrial training, the Area Manager appealed to stakeholders to give maximum support to ensure the students get the required skills for the country’s labour market.
“I pray that they get good placement and abide by the rules and regulations in the organizations, put themselves down to learn what they are expected to learn, and when they come back, we expect that there is a difference. They should have learned something new because definitely, what they learned in school, would be expected to be put into practicals”, Dr Adashe explains.
Earlier, the Rector Federal Polytechnic Bauchi Alhaji Sani Usman who listed some of the requirements of the industrial attachment to include attendance and discipline, noted that the students must be willing to learn, abide by the rules and regulations of their host organisations.
“So, our students are given industrial experience during their first year so as to be registered in their minds that all of them are meant to be skilled class men and women and that is why the industrial attachment is very important. It enables them to build on what they have learned in their respective classrooms and practicals during the year”.
Sani Usman disclosed that the institution has instituted mechanisms for two round of supervisions per student, and to ensure that what they are learning is in line with their courses.
“The supervision is also to see that the employees or the places they have been sent to do their SIWES do not exploit them to the level that is not required by the institution and to also make sure that the industry is also supervising them there. It is sort of a pair review exercise that we do together with the industry and that’s why we go twice”, Alhaji Sani Usman notes.
In a remark, the Director SIWES of the institution, Dr Hamisu Idi said the orientation exercise is a pre-requisite for Industrial Training carrying the highest credit units in the Polytechnic, hence the need for them to shun all negative acts that will negate the good image of the institution.
“Our mandate is to train human resources that are made ready for the Industries and who are job creators rather than job seekers. I am particularly impressed to learn of the marvelous reports reaching me from Industries, all attesting to the hard work, resilience, dedication and good behavior of students from this Polytechnic. I hereby enjoin all of you who are qualified to go for this training to emulate your colleagues and build on the good reputation they have earned for themselves and the Polytechnic by shunning all negative acts that will negate the good and excellent image of this Polytechnic”, Director SIWES says.
The Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme SIWES is a Skills Training Programme designed to prepare and expose Students of Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Technology, Agriculture and Education for the Industrial Work situation they are likely to meet after graduation.
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