The National Board for Technical Education has approved the commencement of nine new Higher National Diplomas and National Diploma Courses at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.
The Rector of the Polytechnic, Sanusi Gumau, disclosed this in his speech at the matriculation of 5,181 newly admitted students, held at the School’s Sports Complex on Saturday.
He said besides the nine new courses that were approved, the NBTE also accredited and reaccredited 19 programmes in the polytechnic.
He said, “In our bid to maintain our very enviable place among our peers in the country, the institution has recently played host to over 100 staff and resource persons from the National Board for Technical Education, Kaduna for accreditation, reaccreditation and resources inspections for the courses run in our various academic departments.
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“As we speak, we received communication from the NBTE on the approval for accreditation and reaccreditation of 19 programmes and another approval to commence nine new ND and HND programmes.
“They are: National Diploma Computer Engineering, National Diploma Fisheries Technology, National Diploma Crime Management, National Diploma Cooperative Economics and Management and National Diploma Taxation.
Others are Higher National Diploma Science Laboratory Technology (Microbiology), Higher National Diploma Forestry Technology, Higher National Diploma Crop Production Technology and Higher National Diploma Library and Information Science.”
Gumau explained that the polytechnic received 8,604 applications for the 2020/2021 academic session. He said that 8,376 were admitted, while 5,181 were registered as bonafide students of the institution.
