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Kingdavid579:
The first government polytechnic in Abuja is a commendable initiative.

However, I strongly believe that the government should reconsider establishing polytechnics in areas that are not easily accessible to all students.

Unfortunately, the current location in Gwarinpa is not ideal, as it is expensive and not conducive for student life.

I implore Minister Wike to explore alternative locations, such as AMAC and Kwali, which would be more suitable and affordable for students.

I swear I no even like the name polytechnic

DEROX:
unfortunately am not igbo tell him to show us certificate not the forged one he used in working at those sham places you mentioned oo and also not the drug related cases

Don't give a damn about where you come from.
We have seen his results, he was one of the best students in his set.

How can I forge something that belongs to me?
You think white men are daft.

Continue your bitterness.....

But Abuja isn't a state.

The so called policy (a misguided policy if ever there was one) seeks to establish polytechnics in states. Is Abuja now a state?

Do Nigerians need this rubbish? Why wasting Nigerians money for nonsense and useless things? Na ogun go kill una one by one.

Alliswell248:


Don't give a damn about where you come from.
We have seen his results, he was one of the best students in his set.

How can I forge something that belongs to me?
You think white men are daft.

Continue your bitterness.....

indeed lmao I hope in my next life I will still not come from south west Nigeria Tueh

zero8zero:

STFU, how many public tertiary Institutions are there in your state compared to Abuja, the FCT.

Education is not competion or quantity. Its about quality.
Adding another advance secondary is more insult to Nigerians and wastage of scarce resources

Sycophants in govt. Un serious bunch people just wasting public funds. Why establishing new schools when the old ones are underfunded..Naija is a comedy joke.

kettykin:
Why not take this to Iragbiji instead? Or name Yabatech after him.Is this really what the federal capital needs right now? The APC-led regime has a chronic problem with misplaced priorities—jumping from the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway to the Sokoto-Lagos highway, and now, of all things, a polytechnic.

This is the highest misplaced priority. Imagine building a polytechnic for Trump in Washington DC.

May Nigeria happen to anything APC.

Have you taken your drugs today?

kettykin:

Am I a drug mule or a drug baron?

You ventilating like someone who missed the drug dosage.

Judolisco:
Young boy what's the name of your sch

YoungBoy:BATPOLY

😂 😂 😂

This is our official logo:

Signed:
Management.

EmperorCaesar:


We should even rename 1/3 of our monuments after him

PBAT, father of New Nigeria

Rename Nigeria after him

It's the closing salutation that is worisome to me. Our Education Minister writing "Please,[sic] accept the assurances [sic] of my esteem [sic] regards" is worrisome. An Education Ministry can do better.

treesun:




https://saharareporters.com/2025/01/21/nigerian-govt-approves-bola-ahmed-tinubu-polytechnic-abuja-directs-fct-minister-wike

tollyboy5:

Education is not competion or quantity. Its about quality.
Adding another advance secondary is more insult to Nigerians and wastage of scarce resources

You shouldn't have gone to any tertiary Institution yourself since it is an advanced secondary school, illiterate.

EmperorCaesar:


We should even rename 1/3 of our monuments after him

PBAT, father of New Nigeria

Na part of the rebranding be that. Wait till everywhere is his name like Lagos...

Ijaya123:


Have you taken your drugs today?

Am I a drug mule or a drug baron?

DaBullIT:
More looting

More money to be made.

And wike still moving like he's some kind of god


It rarely every ends well,

As usual nobody will complain but deep down we all know they won't finish the project but the money will be paid out quickly

Both Tinubu and Wike have no record of abandoned project in the state they once governed. You should be ashamed of this nonsense you posted

Capacity building is needed ,some commentators aren't thinking right by criticizing this laudable initiative

zero8zero:

You shouldn't have gone to any tertiary Institution yourself since it is an advanced secondary school, illiterate.

Off topic. You don't have any sensible thing to say aside rubbbish

Looking4Trouble:


Both Tinubu and Wike have no record of abandoned project in the state they once governed. You should be ashamed of this nonsense you posted

Very true, Tiffnubu especially has nothing to show at all

Just like the imaginary 15 trillion naira coastal road, it did not exist in the budget but I'm fairly certain they've shared it

Pretty sure if I Google wike I'll find very damning reports, but I don't know about politics of the east


Tiffnubu we know and he doesn't have anything to his name

dynicks:
indirectly, so long as Wike is involved, that project will surely be completed to the fullest but be rest assured that kickbacks must as well be made!......

You say that like it's normal

Kickback lobbying stage
Kickback bidding stage ( if its open bidding)
Kickback award stage
Kickback mobilization
Kickback site inspection
Kickback site meeting
Kickback when money is exhausted
Kickback when contractor is owed money
Kickback failure to meet handover period

And a lot more kickbacks

So tell me is this normal?

FluentBit:
The approval of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Polytechnic in Abuja by the Nigerian government is a significant step toward improving higher education in the country. This move reflects the government's commitment to expanding access to quality technical education. The directive for the FCT Ministry to ensure the timely establishment of the polytechnic shows the government's focus on development and infrastructure.
For more updates on government decisions and educational reforms, visit FluentBit[/https://fluentbit.net/].

how has higher education in all higher education institutions improved in nigeria since tinubu came to office?

is it the establishment of a polytechnic in abuja that will improve higher education in the country?

how much access do young nigerians have to technical education in already existing polytechnics?

how does establishing a new polytechnic show "the government's focus on development and infrastructure"?

zero8zero:

You shouldn't have gone to any tertiary Institution yourself since it is an advanced secondary school, illiterate.

pls what is the meaning of the word "illiterate"?

can you rationally dispute anything he said in his post?

tollyboy5:

Education is not competion or quantity. Its about quality.
Adding another advance secondary is more insult to Nigerians and wastage of scarce resources

tollyboy5:

Off topic. You don't have any sensible thing to say aside rubbbish

Illiterate, I repeat, if a tertiary Institution is an advanced secondary school, you should not have attended one.

EmperorCaesar:


We should even rename 1/3 of our monuments after him

PBAT, father of New Nigeria

you can also change your name to Tinubu, you wife to Remi and son to Seyi

Alliswell248:


Don't give a damn about where you come from.

so what does this mean?

Alliswell248:

Ibobotamus with their backward thinking.

zero8zero:

Illiterate, I repeat, if a tertiary Institution is an advanced secondary school, you should not have attended one.

You don't have sense. If it's not advance secondary why do your fav politician children don't attend.
They leave it for Dundee like you to send your kids there

Jagaban2012:
Another form of political campaign . 2027 is sure for BAT. ...I dare Peter Obi to win Abuja votes this time....

are you saying everybody in Abuja will attend the polytechnic?

is it polytechnic that made peter obi win abuja votes last time out?

what's this rubbish

Establishing a polytechnic when the existing ones are facing discrimination problems. Waste of resources

Major reform as 600 universities become polytechnics
Yojana Sharma 12 June 2014
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In a bid to reduce the huge number of university graduates with similar academic degrees competing with each other for the same jobs, China has announced that it will turn at least half of its public universities into institutions of applied learning or polytechnics to produce more technically trained graduates.

The radical, wide-ranging move will transform the country’s higher education landscape, education experts said.

Lu Xin, a vice-minister in China’s Ministry of Education, announced the decision to turn 600 of the country’s general universities into polytechnics at a meeting of college and university leaders at the 2014 China Development Forum earlier this year.

She said that in a “gradual transition” to the dual system, the new applied institutions would focus on training engineers, senior technicians and other highly skilled workers rather than pursuing over-academic, highly theoretical studies.

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"There is an urgent need to reform our current education system, which has been struggling to provide high quality talents with skills and knowledge that meet demand at the production frontline," Lu said at the forum.

Qiang Zha, an associate professor of education at York University in Canada, said the policy amounted to a move towards a ‘binary’ higher education system of academic and applied institutions, similar to the system in with its research universities and high quality technical fachhochschulen or polytechnics.

“This is a major change from a system where all higher education institutions are measured against one set of criteria,” he said.

Market relevance

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The switch to more technical and vocational higher education “has a lot to do with the relevance of higher education. Rapid growth in universities caused many programmes that were not very relevant” to be offered, Qiang told University World News, adding that the polytechnics would help reduce the unemployment rate among university graduates.

Although the government has concentrated on boosting science and technology degrees in recent years, where there is more job market demand, research has shown that students have little inclination to study the sciences, even if they are useful.

According to a report released at the end of May by the China Youth and Children Research Centre, or CYCRC, in Beijing, only around 30% of high school students surveyed said they would be willing to study science, engineering or medicine at university.

“Science related jobs are less attractive for Chinese youth compared with those more economically promising ones such as managerial positions in enterprises,” said Sun Hongyan, director of the CYCRC’s childhood research institute, quoted by official media.

But the preference of students and their families for humanities and management degrees has led to a glut that cannot be absorbed by the jobs market.

This year a record 7.26 million students will graduate from China’s universities, with unemployment levels running at around 15%.

The government fears that with such high levels of unemployment, particularly experienced by graduates from newer universities, “there is potential for instability caused by a backlash by parents and students from the new universities”, Qiang said.

Some 80% of higher vocational school graduates last year found jobs, while only around two-thirds of college graduates found work within six months or a year after graduation, according to a report from the 21st Century Education Research Institute in Beijing.

Vocational college graduates also had a slightly higher average starting salary compared to graduates from China's top 100 universities.

Who will switch?

Although the list of universities to be converted has not been made public, likely candidates will be universities created during and after the 1990s, when hundreds of new local universities emerged as higher education enrolment rocketed, Qiang said.

“Their graduates often lost out against peers from the older universities on institutional reputation and programme quality, so many of them now seek to transform their curricular and programme offerings and are keen to label themselves as fachhochschule – universities of applied sciences,” he said.

While some institutions will convert willingly, others may be more reluctant.

The announcement has caused a stir among university heads, with many unsure whether their institutions might be among those slated to become polytechnics, with an accompanying possible downgrading of their status as university professors, according to academics who declined to be named.

Xiong Bingqi, associate dean of research at the 21st Century Education Research Institute in Beijing, said the overall strategy of turning universities into vocationally oriented institutions was the right approach but the change had to be properly handled.

Compulsory restructuring imposed on institutions may not be appropriate, he said.

Many institutions had already changed once, under government decree, from vocational colleges to increase the number of quality academic institutions – but reversing the process could be fraught with problems.

“Many institutions may not be ready for the transition,” Xiong said.

The government has said pilot programmes will be launched this year, with 150 universities already g up for the plan, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

Vocational entrance exam

Separately, the government had already announced reforms to the national college entrance exams, the gaokao, with a new option from this year to take a vocational-technical exam rather than the well known academic exam that determines university entry.

Approved by the State Council – China’s cabinet – in February, the vocational gaokao was described as a pilot when it was held for the first time alongside the traditional gaokao on 7-8 June 2014.

Previously some 40,000 vocational institutions set their own entrance exams with lower academic requirements than the gaokao but with aptitude tests related to the courses offered.

“We want students who are interested in our courses and talented in the field, not those who simply score low in the national exam,” said Lao Hansheng, president of Guangdong Engineering Polytechnic in southern China, quoted by official media.

Separating the gaokao into two tracks will pave the way for recruitment for the new dual-track higher education system, academics said. A high quality vocational gaokao will ensure that students who follow that track are not seen as second rate compared to their academic peers.

EmperorCaesar:


We should even rename 1/3 of our monuments after him

PBAT, father of New Nigeria

Indeed. That should be the name of his party.

Another govt will still change it.

Abeg site it in kuje, so the value of my properties can go up