Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of the Polytechnics, Jubrin Ahmad, has called on the Federal Government to review tertiary educational system with the aim of correcting the imbalance between the graduates of polytechnics and universities across the nation.
He also urged the State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, and citizens of Nasarawa State to ensure that peace reigned in the country.
The chairman made the call on Tuesday at the 5th national conference.
Speaking at the conference tagged, 'Polytechnic Education and Middle Cadre Manpower Development in Nigeria', he said, "The absence of polytechnic education in Nigeria and any nation will amount to underdevelopment or slow national development.
"This is exactly the case and problem with Nigeria. Even though Nigeria has many polytechnics that produce this middle level manpower, its economy has refused to grow."
He attributed it to the disparity and controversy between the HND and Bachelors degree."
In his presentation, the Commissioner for Information and Ethical Orientation, Mr. Hamza Mohammed, said for a nation to attain national development and self-reliance the need for technical education is very important, sighting an insight on Pakistan, Singapore and Indonesia whose attached premium to technical education in the early 80's.
He added that for Nigeria to develop topmost priority ought to be given to technical education.
"It must be stated for the records that a renewed effort is being made to resuscitate the decaying technical education in some states of the federation but inadequate power supply continues to pose serious challenges to its success," he lamented.
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