The Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education, Prof Idris Bugaje, has described the current National Diploma and Higher National Diploma curriculum for engineering courses in polytechnics as not fit for the 21st Century.
He, therefore, expressed readiness to partner with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria to revamp the engineering curriculum in Nigeria’s secondary, polytechnic and mono-technic institutions.
The NBTE is a board of education that supervises, regulates and oversees educational programmes offered by technical institutions at secondary, polytechnic and mono-technic levels through an accreditation process in Nigeria, while COREN is a regulating body of engineers in the country.
Speaking while playing host to a delegation from the COREN, led by its President, Prof Sadiq Abubakar, in Kaduna, Bugaje promised that the board, under his leadership, would work with the COREN to reposition the profession to a global standard.
Bugaje also lamented the current budget allocation of N50m from the Federal Government, saying it was inadequate for the review of the curriculum.
