The Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Bugaje, has expressed worry over the neglect of technical colleges in the country.
According to him, technical colleges are supposed to serve as major sources of admission for polytechnics but are being abandoned with all the machinery rotting away.
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Professor Bugaje then called for the re-engineering and reinvention of technical colleges across the country in order to boost polytechnic education and skills acquisition among youths.
Bugaje spoke on Wednesday at the Review of 10 National Technical Certificates (NTC) and Advanced National Technical Certificates (ANTC) curricular workshop in Kaduna.
He stressed the need to provide proper infrastructure and machinery and train the teachers.
He said those who studied sociologists and Nigerian languages (teaching in technical colleges) should be moved out from those schools and recruit the right people to lead them.
