The 21 year-old Taraba
State Polytechnic has been running courses without accreditation from
the National Board for Technical Education, the chairman, Joint Action
Committee of Tertiary Institutions said yesterday in Jalingo.
Comrade AbduKarim Bello said at a news
conference that the College of Nursing and Midwifery Jalingo had also
not admitted students for the past 10 years due to non accreditation of
its courses and facilities by the Nursing Council of Nigeria.
He said this had created a serious shortage of nurses and midwives in government hospitals across the state while graduates of the polytechnic are facing problems of proper placement in higher institutions and employment outside the state.
“Though the polytechnic was established to train middle level workers in the state, government should ensure the accreditation of all courses and facilities in order add value and make the certificates awarded recognised nationwide”, he said.
The committee chairman also urged the state government to ensure that before relocating the institution from its present site, adequate arrangements must be made for buildings and other facilities to meet accreditation requirements.
He said this had created a serious shortage of nurses and midwives in government hospitals across the state while graduates of the polytechnic are facing problems of proper placement in higher institutions and employment outside the state.
“Though the polytechnic was established to train middle level workers in the state, government should ensure the accreditation of all courses and facilities in order add value and make the certificates awarded recognised nationwide”, he said.
The committee chairman also urged the state government to ensure that before relocating the institution from its present site, adequate arrangements must be made for buildings and other facilities to meet accreditation requirements.
-Daily Trust
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