BY GBENGA OLARINOYE, OSOGBO
The Rector, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Dr.Jacob Olusola Agboola has called for a national education summit urgently where issues concerning education problems in the country would be discussed.

Agboola, who also decried the standard of education in the country, called for a holistic repackaging of tertiary institutions in the country. Speaking at a press conference of the fourth combined convocation of the polytechnic, Agboola stressed the need for all stakeholders in the education sector to meet on how to resuscitate the education sector in the country. He noted that the level of decay in the education sector was high. Highlighting the recent achievements recorded by his administration in the last one year, Agboola disclosed that 36 programmes of the institution cutting across both National and Higher National Diploma levels have been fully accredited by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and other relevant professional bodies.

He informed that the efforts of the institution at complementing the state government’s vision of vocational and technical training has yielded positive results as the institution would soon commence courses in Arts and Design and Tourism Management at the National Diploma level. Also, he disclosed that the institution had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sussex University in England for an exchange programme, adding that many students of the polytechnic have benefited from the programme. He said that an MoU had also been signed with the Pinnacle College in the United Kingdom to enable graduates of the institution convert their diplomas to bachelor’s degree.

Agboola stressed that the students of the polytechnic have been instilled with the ethos of virtue as indecent dressing, examination malpractice and cultism have been curtailed among the students.