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ASUP Kicks Against New NBTE Service Scheme

POSTED ON July 19, 2024 •   Education      BY Benedicta Bassey
ASUP Logo/ Photo credit: asupng.org

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has rejected the new service scheme released by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), saying the move aims to worsen the country's situation and should be discouraged.

The union chapters in Ekiti, Kwara and Ondo states, made this known yesterday at a press conference in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.

They described the new scheme as capable of killing polytechnic education system in the country.

The chairmen, in the conference addressed by ASUP FPA Chairman, Adebayo Daramola, said the Ekiti, Kwara and Ondo chapters backed the ultimatum given by their national body to the NBTE to suspend the scheme of service so that its contentious provisions could be amended.

Following the release of the service scheme, the ASUP National Executive Committee gave the NBTE a 15-day ultimatum, which would expire on July 22, to withdraw it.

Daramola said: “We frown on and reject provisions of the scheme that are so inimical to the system and a great threat to the existence of the polytechnic sector.

“We want the government to do what is good for the sector. If you kill the polytechnic sector in this country, then what remains?
“Are we just to be a consuming country? We need to produce and it is the polytechnic sector that can do that.”

He added, “The Council of the National Officers submitted a draft for input, but when the scheme was released, we discovered that what our officers submitted was not captured at all.

“Look at the issue of career progression; initially, it was 18 years, but with the scheme, we now have 26 years – meaning even if you come in as lecturer two, you may not even get to the last part of the promotion before you will retire.

“Then the issue of division of Senior Lecturer Cadre into Senior Lecturer 1 and Senior Lecturer 2 is strange. That means when you are supposed to spend three years on a level, then you end up spending six or eight years, elongating the next promotion. So, we are against it.”

He said the ASUP chapters also faulted the inclusion of sub-tertiary education qualification tagged, 'National Skills Qualification as a compulsory requirement for career progression of academic staff in polytechnics', describing it as “an aberration to the sector".

He further said: “The controversial document, by its contents, further consolidates the discrimination meted out to the holders of Higher National Diploma in a system that produces them in favour of Bachelor's degree holders.

“This is obvious in the document concerning the disparity in entry point and bar for HND and B.Sc holders in both teaching and non-teaching categories.

“The peak of the injury is an outright denial of HND holders to attain the pinnacle of their careers, as evident in the requirement for the positions of Bursar and Registrar, as contained in Section 3 of the document which only considers B.Sc holders.”

The ASUP Zonal Coordinator, Adekunle Masopa, said, “Several things are wrong with the new scheme of service. We are asking them to suspend the implementation of this scheme of service, pending when the necessary amendments will have been done to the contentious provisions.

Masopa stated: “All stakeholders met and came out with an outline of issues within the scheme of service. It is not only about ASUP, all stakeholders are condemning that scheme. The NBTE should do the needful by listening to the stakeholders within the sector as a regulator.

“As polytechnics, where there are governing councils, the employment rights of staff of polytechnics have been conferred on the governing council of each institution. We are not employees of the HOCS. We were employed by the governing council of the various institutions.” 

The text of the press conference was signed by ASUP chairmen – Adebayo Daramola (Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti), Ade Arikawe (Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo), Ademola Adewumi (Federal Polytechnic, Ile Oluji), Dr Kayode Sule (Federal College of Agriculture, Akure), Victor Oluwatuyi (College of Health Technology, Ijero Ekiti) and Dr M.I Atilola (Federal Polytechnic, Offa).

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