THE Rector of Ronik Polytechnic, Lagos, Pastor Adetokunbo Adewale Adeniji, has called on the Federal Government to discard the idea of either scrapping the polytechnics and colleges of education or upgrading them to universities. Instead, he advised that a consistent education policy should be put in place to strengthen them so they could produce the nation’s needed middle-level manpower.
Pastor Adeniji who spoke with newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos after the institution’s sixth matriculation ceremony where 150 students were admitted into National Diploma (ND1) across various departments, noted that the backward nature of the nation’s education sector had its root in unsustainable policies by different governments that have ruled the country since independence.