New Programmes Accredited For FEDPOLY Ado Ekiti By NBTE

By Olarewaju Falayi

The National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, has accredited new sets of courses and programmes for the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti. 

Communicating the decision of the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, through a press release sent to Treasure Newspaper in Ado Ekiti on Friday, the Director of PIPR, Mr Adeyemi-Adejolu, fnipr revealed that Fisheries Technology and five other courses has been newly approved for the Institution to run.

According to Adeyemi Adejolu, he said, “the NBTE’s approvals, which followed the outcome of a recent Quality Control Visitation Exercise to six programmes in the Polytechnic’s School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology (SAAT) was conveyed in three separate correspondents and signed by Architect Ngbede Ogoh, the Board’s Director of Polytechnic Programmes”.

Continuing, Adejolu stated that “a letter addressed to the Rector, with reference number TEB/PRO/FP.O/Vol.III/141, titled “Grant of Approval to Commence Programmes”, The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti was mandated to commence admission for the HND Fisheries Technology programme with effect from the 2022/2023 Academic Session”.

Adejolu added that “another correspondence similarly addressed to the Institution’s Rector, which granted Interim Accreditation to HND Agricultural Extension and Management programme reads as follows: “With reference to the Quality Assurance Visitation carried out by the Board to your Institution from 23rd to 26th October, 2022, I am directed to inform you that the Board has granted Interim Accreditation for a period of one year to the Institution”

Further more, Adejolu explained that, “a separate letter with reference number TEB/PRO/FP.O1/Vol.III/140, conveying the other four programmes, which received the NBTE’s Full Accreditation status are: ND Fisheries Technology; ND Horticultural Technology; HND Animal Production Technology and HND Crop Production Technology”.

The four programmes granted full accreditation for five years will only be due for another quality assurance visitation of the NBTE by the end of September, 2027.

“It would be recalled that in an earlier, and similar Quality Control Visitation exercise to The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, the NBTE had approved the commencement of seven new programmes along with the accreditation/re-accreditation of more eleven other programmes”.

Thus, the NBTE approval to mount the HND Fisheries Technology programme in the Polytechnic brings to eight the new programmes, which students are to be admitted with effect from the 2022/2023 Academic Session of the Institution.