Education

16 years after, Anambra poly graduates not qualified for NYSC – Rector

Education

By Nwafor Okafor

Sixteen years after its inception, the
Anambra State Poly­technic, Ngbakwu, in the Awka North Local Government Area of the state is yet to produce qualified graduates for the National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) programme.

The rector of the polytechnic, Dr.Njideka Chiekezie, stated this during an interactive session with the Anambra State House of Assembly’s commit­tee on tertiary education and officials of the institution.

The rector said the poly­technic required enough funding to meet her
accredita­tion requirements to enable graduates produced by the institution to be enlisted in the mandatory one year NYSC programme for Nigerian university and polytechnic graduates.

Chiekezie, who became rector of the polytechnic recently, described the situation she met on ground as despicable, adding that it would require frantic efforts to enable graduates of the school to overcome the problem.

She said,”The HND pro­grammes of the polytechnic are not accredited; this is the major reason students of the institution are not enrolled into the NYSC scheme.”

She said the budget being approved for the institution only covers payment of salaries, overheads and allied expenses, but did not take care of accreditation of programmes because accreditation, accord­ing to her, was capital intensive and done as a separate budget.

She said: “In order for us to obtain this accreditation, it re­quires the uplifting of the infra­structure in the school. What we need is listed in our capital budget. So, if we see fund for accreditation, there will be a change in infrastructure.

“We need engineering workshops, classroom blocks and we also desire to introduce more courses in our school but because we don’t have enough buildings to accommodate these courses, we are handi­capped. So we are in dire need of classroom blocks and oth­er infrastructure in the poly­technic. “

By Ifeizu Joe

Ifeizu is a seasoned journalist and Managing Editor of TheRazor. He has wide knowledge of Anambra State and has reported the state objectively for over a decade.

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