MAPOLY to offer nine new courses

The Management of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), has said that the citadel of learning will be offering nine new courses from the next academic session.

Disclosing this was the Acting Rector of the Institution, Dr Adeoye Odedeji, while the executive members of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP), paid him a courtesy call, on Monday, in Abeokuta.

Odedeji said the additional courses would further make the Polytechnic maintain its giant strides in technological education and meet up with the 21st century ICT learning.

He said the development would be made possible with the N245million Centre for Vocational Training and Skill Acquisition donated by TETFUND to the school.

The acting rector hinted that the school would start awarding degree certificates for some of its Higher National Diploma (HND) courses from the next academic session, saying that the new courses have been accredited for its HND programmes.

The new programmes were Cyber Security; Software and Hardware Engineering, Epistemology and Disease Control Technology; Fisheries; Social Development; Library Science Technology and Environmental Biology.

According to him, the new HND courses such as Hospitality Management; Mechanical Engineering; Leisure and Tourism; Quantity Survey; Surveying and Geoinformatics would create a platform for their students who did their ND programmes with the school.

“I’ve just realised that there’s a need for us to increase our programme based, that’s why we’re bringing these new courses. For example, the first course in Cyber Security, Hardware and Software Engineering, are programmes that will domicile at the N245million Centre for Vocational Training and Skill Acquisition since the centre deals with ICT.

“With the facilities available we cannot just use it for skill acquisition alone, so we must maximally exploit beyond the potentials government has made available to us.

“The COVID-19 has taught us lots of lessons, that’s why we’re bringing in Epistemology and Disease Control Technology, Environmental Health Technology.

“The beauty of it is that, at the end of the day, we will be establishing a school of Health Technology that will consist of the pharmaceutical technology department, department of nutrition and ethics, department of epistemology and disease control and eventually, department of Nursing technology.

“Apart from that, we’re also going into fisheries. We want to convert the water lock area into a fish pond, and that will become a practice field for our students. We are also introducing social development as a course, library science technology and information and Environmental Biology.

“Apart from this, we will be introducing new programmes at the HND level. HND Mechanical engineering, HND hospitality management, HND Leisure and Tourism, HND Quantity Survey, HND Surveying and Geoinformatics.

“All the programmes are run at ND level and we have produced many ND students, so we can’t afford to just abandon them, there’s a need for us to create a platform for them to have their HND and above all, we will be starting our B. Tech next session,” he added.

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