AUCHI - A five-day training workshop on Curriculum and Information Communication Technology (I.C.T) for academic and non academic staff of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi Edo State opened Tuesday with a commitment to putting appropriate mechanism in place for the reinvigoration of seminars and conferences to boost research academic papers, technical reports and design concepts.
Rector of the Polytechnic Dr. Mrs. Philipa Idogho disclosed this development while declaring the workshop midwifed by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) open. She explained that the training facility would no doubt expose the participants to the use of packages like Microsoft word, Excel, Corel draw, Power Point and internet browsing.
The Rector emphasized that the Polytechnic must be repositioned to an educational institution founded to train high caliber manpower for industry, commerce, business and government, pointing out that those who were out to train others must themselves be properly trained and well skilled. Idogho announced that the polytechnic would embark on a deliberate search for qualitative and teachable students from the next academic session while it also intends to comply fully with the 70/30 ratio of admission in favour of Science and Engineering as laid down by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
The institution, she remarked, was seeking to consolidate its relevance and reputation in the technical educational sector, adding that it was the vision of her administration to make all staff computer literate and proficient to enable them store and retrieve records, use the internet and conduct quality research. In his opening remarks, a representative of the MDG, Engr.
Mohammed Shuaibu noted that the society would be backward without the training and research of lecturers, noting that the workshop was to create awareness recognizing that the time had come for all to be ICT literate.
He called on participants and the polytechnic community to avail themselves of the opportunity to own lap tops as many transactions like e-ticketing, e-payments, e-registration etc had become possible with the ICT.
Also speaking, a senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics, Auchi Polytechnic, Mallam Shehu Umar described the response of staff to the new world information order as encouraging, adding that the training regime was designed to ensure growth.
He noted that no information related to research could be obtained without ICT and urged participants to endeaovur to achieve the new status in the use of ICT programme so that research could be seen to be easy.
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