Undoing the HEC damage
April 24, 2021
Considerable damage has been done to higher education in the last three years because of the one-sided policies of the last chairperson, most of which were bulldozed through without taking any stakeholder on board through a consultative process.
Such policies will destroy both the undergraduate and graduate academic programmes, as well as research in the country, and must be immediately suspended by the incoming chairperson when he/she takes charge.
In addition to the changes made to the academic curriculum (‘Higher education ravaged’, The News, April 7, 2021), hardly 25 percent of the PhD scholarships and post-PhD fellowships were awarded to deserving candidates, which will have a negative impact on future university growth and development of required talented manpower in many emerging areas and technologies (‘HEC woes’, April 2. 2021).
Flagging off the programme yesterday, Governor Nasiru El-Rufai expressed delight that Kaduna Polytechnic is bringing to life the NSQ programme, which is the prime objective of the Nigerian skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) that was approved by the Federal Executive Council since 2017.
El-Rufai was represented by the commissioner, Kaduna State Ministry for Business and Innovation Technology, Idris Nyam.