ASUP insists on parity in university, polytechnic funding

The striking Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has again called on the Federal Government to properly fund the polytechnic education like that of the university.
The union said it was until this is done that the country would experience tangible technological advancement and economic growth.
The National President of the group, Mr. Chibuzor Asomugha stated this during the union’s National Executive Council meeting held at Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos recently.
According to him, it is disheartening that the Federal Government’s subvention to Kaduna Polytechnic for the fiscal year for instance is not up to half of the least amount given to a university.
He said it was not that ASUP likes to embark on strike but that the union was pushed to the wall and embarks on the current one to compel the government to do the needful for the subsector.
“So, we must understand as a country that polytechnic education is critical to the technological and economic development of Nigeria and government should therefore stop playing down the subsector as if it is not important,” he stressed.
Speaking on infrastructural development at YABATECH, the president commended the Rector of the institution, Dr. Margaret Oladipo, saying he was particularly impressed at the level of development that has taken place in the polytechnic in recent years.
He described Oladipo in a release by the institution’s spokesman, Charles Oni, as a pace setter and prudent manager of resources.
Asomugha, who is of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi however told his colleagues at the meeting that he had taken snap shots of some of the edifices in the college to show his rector back home.
Responding, Ladipo called for quick resolution of the strike so that normalcy would return to various public polytechnics in the country.
She said the current situation whereby students stay at home for months idle was detrimental to the country.

source:http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/asup-insists-on-parity-in-university-polytechnic-funding/

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