Osun not planning to scrap any tertiary institution, Dep. Gov replies critics
Osun State Government has again given clarification on the controversies surrounding it's education policies, saying that there was no plan to scrap some of the tertiary institutions in the state.
The deputy governor, Mrs Titilayo Laoye-Tomori stated this while briefing members of the State House of Assembly Committee on Education over the development in the education sector.
She said the government has advised the Institutions to harmonize some of the courses in the State owned tertiary institutions to avoid duplication of courses and ensure that graduates of the institutions acquire appropriate skills that can make them self sustaining after their education.
She said, "The Government has directed the forum of Chairmen of the Governing Board of the Institutions to review their Programmes and come up with a Position Paper on how to make our students job creators instead of job seekers after graduation. We want our Polytechnics to run Courses that would meet the need of the Nation and make the graduates self reliant
" Towards this end, the Government has directed all the tertiary institutions to devote 50% of their admission quota to their main programmes , 25% should be devoted to Remedial Programmes to cater for the teeming youths that could not gain admission to any tertiary Institution ."
She added that Polytechnics were to devote 25% of their admission to Vocational, Technical and Skill Acquisition Courses where Graduates that want to acquire such Skills can enroll , and where Artisans that want to sharpen their skills and acquire certificates can equally be admitted.
Colleges of Education, according to her, are to devote 25% of their admission quota to running of Continuos Education Programmes for training of teachers from all over the State and beyond.
The Deputy Governor added, "This is to ensure that we produce graduates that will be useful to themselves and be able to establish there own businesses after graduation as well as ensure sustenance of well trained teachers in elementary and Secondary Schools in the State.
" There is no plan to scrap any of the four Tertiary Institutions , we just want them to run viable programmes. The Government is still expecting the Position Paper from the Forum of the Governing Council Chairmen before implementation ."
Earlier, the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Honourable Folorunsho Bamisayemi commended the government for the way it has handled issues in the areas of education in the state.
He said, "The series of controversies that had ensued over the education policies of government was an indication that it is committed to get things done in the sector by not dogding the issues, but proffering solutions to them.
"The paucity of funds required that the government should come up with ingenius ways of sustaining the system and increasing the quality in the system."
He passed vote of confidence on the government on the way it has been handling the education system, saying, the Assembly would be coming up with ideas to assist the government in realising its goal on the education
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Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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