{"id":321169,"date":"2011-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/%e2%80%98strengthen-polytechnics-education-colleges%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T00:00:00","slug":"strengthen-polytechnics-education-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/strengthen-polytechnics-education-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strengthen Polytechnics, Education Colleges\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"36.9310998736\">\n<div readability=\"20\">\n<p>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\u2019s needed middle-level manpower.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Adeniji who spoke with newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos after the institution\u2019s sixth matriculation ceremony where 150 students were admitted into National Diploma (ND1) across various departments, noted that the backward nature of the nation\u2019s education sector had its root in unsustainable policies by different governments that have ruled the country since independence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ngrguardiannews.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=42060:strengthen-polytechnics-education-colleges&amp;catid=1:national&amp;Itemid=559\" title=\"\u2018Strengthen Polytechnics, Education Colleges\u2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Strengthen Polytechnics, Education Colleges\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 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\u2019s needed middle-level manpower. Pastor Adeniji who spoke with newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos after the institution\u2019s sixth matriculation ceremony where 150 students were admitted into National Diploma (ND1) across various departments, noted that the backward nature of the nation\u2019s education sector had its root in unsustainable policies by different governments that have ruled the country since independence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Strengthen Polytechnics, Education Colleges\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/strengthen-polytechnics-education-colleges\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Strengthen Polytechnics, Education Colleges\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"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. 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