Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics Renews Call For National Polytechnic Commission

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has renewed calls for the establishment of a National Polytechnics Commission to regulate and oversee the affairs of polytechnic education in the country.

National President, Anderson Nzebe, made the call while rounding off his working visit to the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, on Sunday.

Nzebe said the call for such commission was to guarantee the desired growth and development in the nation’s polytechnic education sector.

According to him, ASUP needs such commission as against the present system of being regulated by a body, which oversees over 600 other institutions with uncorrelated needs and policies.

Nzebe expressed the need for all stakeholders within and outside the sector to work for unity of purpose to deliver a National Polytechnic Commission that would save the sector from abject neglect and total collapse.

The ASUP President also stressed the need to strengthen industrial harmony between Trade Unions within the polytechnic sector and institutional managements as regards labour management relations.