The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), has urged the Federal Government to suspend the new service scheme released by the National Board for Technical Education.
The Independent Mirror reports that the ASUP Northwest Zonal Coordinator, Zone One Dr. Abdul Azeez Ibrahim Badaru, who did this at a press conference in Kano on Friday, said the new NBTE scheme was capable of killing polytechnic education.
Also, the ASUP National Executive Committee gave the NBTE a 15-day ultimatum, which would expire on July 22, to withdraw the action.
We previously described the “scheme of Service for Polytechnics” as a rough work, and urged the NBTE to convene a stakeholder meeting to address all concerns. The NBTE’s piecemeal reviews and suspension of certain provisions only add to the confusion and validate our position,”
“As polytechnics, where there are governing councils, the employment rights of staff of polytechnics have been conferred on the governing council of each institution”
“The controversial document, by its contents, further consolidates the discrimination meted out to the holders of Higher National Diploma in a system that produces them in favour of Bachelors degree holders.
ASUP Northwest Zonal Coordinator, Zone One Dr. Abdul Azeez Ibrahim Badaru, when he answering the questions from Newasman in Kano
“This is obvious in the document concerning the disparity in entry point and bar for HND and B.Sc. holders in both teaching and non-teaching categories”, Dr Badaru added.
“All stakeholders on Monday met to outline issues within the scheme of service. It is not only about ASUP, all stakeholders are condemning that scheme. The NBTE should do what is required by listening to the stakeholders within the sector as a regulator”,
He was also disappointed by the failure to implement the 65-years retirement age in several state Polytechnics and the reversal of this policy in Kano State Polytechnic and Audu Bako College of Agriculture, Dambatta.
He called on the state government to immediately implement the 65-year retirement age for the Kano Polytechnics staff.
Dr. Abdulaziz Ibrahim Badaru, concluded, commended the state government for reclaiming Kano State Polytechnic plots and returning them to the institution.
