TETFUND, Fedpoly Offa Take On A Four-Year Strategic Plan
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) in collaboration with the Federal Polytechnic, Offa (Fedpoly) has organized a workshop on a four-year strategic plan to improve the institution’s roadmap.
Dr Augustine Adama, who is the chairman of 2021/2024 strategic plan committee and also deputy rector of the institution, says that the workshop was intended to ensure inclusion of inputs from both academic and town communities into the final copy of the strategic plan.
She says that the institution had implemented its strategic plan for the year 2017 to 2020.
Dr Grace Korter, who is the dean, Research and Innovation of the polytechnic, in her presentation, titled, ‘Situational Analysis and Targets of the 2021-2024 Strategic Plan’ says the plan aimed to increase the students’ population into some academic programmes that are less-populated.
She gave examples of such departments that needed an improved student population to include Urban and Regional Planning, Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Estate Management and Valuation, Building Technology and Architecture.
“A method to increase the number of students in the Office and Technology Management department should be adopted going by the gross difference in its population size compared to other departments within the school of Communications and Information Technology.”
Korter added that the strategic plan was also targeted at changing gender imbalance between male and female students in the institution, which she claimed to be currently affecting the female students in some programmes.
“The target should be to strategise on getting more female students into science programmes in the institution. This will help to improve the workforce for a better economy and sustainable development,” she said.
On students’ performance, the don, who said that students’ performance was at its peak between 2017/2018 and 2018/2019, added that the performance deteriorated in 2019/2020.
She says that the target of the plan was “to identify the reasons behind the current performance and strive to overcome the obstacles as well as to minimise wastage of resources and maximize opportunities for both the students and staff.
Korter explained that “In a similar vein, the efforts put in to achieve success by members of staff and students should be identified and rewarded”.
Dr Musa Koko of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) hailed the critical nature of the workshop and involvement of relevant stakeholders.
