The special adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on education, Tokunbo Wahab, told PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview that the new bills seeking conversion of the three institutions to universities will be signed into law “latest mid January” by the governor.
He said beginning from the new year the institutions would no longer admit fresh students for the existing Ordinary National Diploma , Higher National Diploma and Nigerian Certificate of Education awarding programmes “as they will be phased out until the last set of the current students graduates.”
The governor’s adviser said the move is aimed at “improving quality assurance and removing the dichotomy in employability of polytechnic graduates vis-a-vis their counterparts in the universities.”and a University of Education.After scaling the second reading, Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directed the House Committee on Education to look into the bills for further considerations and report back to the house in two weeks.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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