{"id":8775,"date":"2013-08-21T19:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/rectors-urge-fg-to-improve-funding-of-federal-polytechnics\/"},"modified":"2013-08-21T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:44:43","slug":"rectors-urge-fg-to-improve-funding-of-federal-polytechnics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/rectors-urge-fg-to-improve-funding-of-federal-polytechnics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectors urge FG to improve funding of federal polytechnics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some Rectors of the Federal Polytechnics\u00a0on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to fund\u00a0the nation’s higher institutions to enable them to produce qualified graduates.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0told\u00a0the\u00a0News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin\u00a0that government needed to\u00a0give\u00a0priority to technical\u00a0education\u00a0to reduce the rate of unemployment in the country.<\/p>\n

The rectors are in Ilorin for the\u00a0126th Regular Meeting of Council of Heads of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology(COHEADS).<\/p>\n

They\u00a0said\u00a0the\u00a0government should\u00a0give necessary support to the\u00a0institutions to produce graduates that can stand the test of time.<\/p>\n

Mr Usman Saleh, the Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu, lamented that\u00a0the\u00a0universities\u00a0recently established by the Federal Government\u00a0were not\u00a0well\u00a0staffed and funded.<\/p>\n

Prof. Mathew Idowu Ajibero of the\u00a0Kogi\u00a0Polytechnic,\u00a0said what the nation needed now\u00a0was\u00a0funding of\u00a0the existing institutions not\u00a0new ones.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Rector,\u00a0Delta Polytechnic,\u00a0Dr. Jacob Obore, however, said that the nation still needed more higher institutions to cater for the large number of students.<\/p>\n

He said the number of the institutions\u00a0was not sufficient enough to\u00a0cater for the teeming students seeking for admission.<\/p>\n

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