The National Board for Technical
Education (NBTE) has ranked Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo, as the best in the
country.
Masa’udu Kazaure, executive
secretary of the board, made this known in Kaduna on Thursday.
Kazaure said the polytechnic
emerged the best after scoring 85.08 percent in the assessment of 112 federal,
state and private polytechnics in the country.
He said the exercise covered the
2015/2016 and 2016/2017 academic sessions.
Kazaure said the Federal
Polytechnic Ilaro came second with 73.08 percent while Kaduna Polytechnic came
third with 72.31 percent.
Other polytechnics in the top 10
include The Polytechnic Ibadan, ranked fourth; Federal Polytechnic Bida is
fifth while Auchi Polytechnic is ranked sixth.
Institute of Management and
Technology (IMT), Enugu, is seventh while Federal Polytechnic Offa, Rufus Giwa
Polytechnic and Yaba College of Technology jointly occupy the eighth position.
Federal Polytechnic Oko was
ranked 11th while Federal Polytechnic, Idah, is 12th best in Nigeria.
The NBTE boss said when
disaggregated by ownership, Federal Polytechnic Nekede also emerged the best
federal polytechnic in the country followed by Federal Polytechnic Ilaro and
Kaduna Polytechnic.
“The Polytechnic Ibadan, IMT and
Rufus Giwa polytechnics were the highest ranked among state polytechnics, while
Lagos City Polytechnic is the highest ranked private polytechnic and the 16th
in the country,” he said.
“Dorben Polytechnic and Heritage Polytechnic
were the second and third best private polytechnic in the country.”
Kazaure explained that the
polytechnics were ranked based on the total number of programmes with full
accreditation in the last two years and percentage of programmes with full
accreditation.
He said: “Other criteria include
proportion of academic staff showing the right mix, that is, chief lecturer and
principal lecturer down to assistant lecturer; and ability of institution to
introduce programme in new and emerging fields.
“They were equally assessed based
on capacity building of staff both within and outside Nigeria, teaching
quality, including staff /student ratio and ratio of full-time to part-time
staff.
“Other areas are availability of
current campus master plan, strategic plan, and academic brief; percentage of
academic staff with relevant higher qualification and professional
registration; and 70:30 technology-non-technology enrolment ratio.
“Another consideration was the
incorporation of entrepreneurship education into the institute’s curriculum and
fully established Entrepreneurship Development Centre.”
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