The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has reiterated that Polytechnic graduates should acquire the necessary knowledge and entrepreneurial skills and not only paper qualifications.
The Executive Secretary of the Board Prof. Idris Bugaje, stated this at the opening ceremony of a four-day workshop organised in collaboration with Danglo Management and Financial Limited, and sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, in Bauchi.
According to him, “Graduates are expected to become self-employed by starting their small-scale businesses since it’s now apparently clear that the government cannot employ all graduates of higher institutions.”
Also speaking, Dr Bello Bashir, the Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary, said the Board’s focus had changed from degree acquisition to skill proficiency and employment creation due to changing times and modern needs.
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