FORMER students of the National Teachers Institute (NTI), Kwara State Centre, have lamented the delay in the release of their results by the institute from 2017, 2018 and 2019.
The sets of ex-students noted that their careers in their respective workplaces were further being jeopardised, adding that many of them registered for the programme to enhance promotion among other benefits in their workplaces. t
They raised this alarm at a press conference held in Ilorin, the state capital.
Addressing the conference, the spokesperson for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 sets; Mr Ahmed Abdulwahab, appealed to the Federal Government to prevail on the Institute to immediately release their results because they had completed all necessary payments
While noting that he completed the programme in 2017, Abdulwahab said: “We made several attempts through a letter of appeal to NTI national coordinator and even engaged the centre coordinator in Kwara including the then Desk Officer to ensure that our results are released without no further delay but all these efforts proved abortive.
However, the NTI Kwara coordinator, Tinuade Adedokun, noted that the problem was a national one and not limited to Kwara centre alone which is about affiliation, adding that the issue is being addressed.
Adedokun said: “Initially, we were affiliated to the University of Maiduguri and when it came to the time of issuing certificates, the university stopped the affiliation deal. That has been the problem.
“However, the University of Ibadan has taken it over and we are now affiliated to them. So it’s an affiliation challenge and we are resolving it.”
Tribune Education recalls that the acting director-general of the institute, Mallam Bashir Mamman, at a press conference in Ibadan, assured the students of Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) in the South West that their results would soon be released, saying all the issues delaying the release of the results had been resolved with UI.
Mamman, who was represented at by the institute’s deputy director (Test Development), Dr Ibrahim Bala, said: “We are at the final stage of the exercise, which is the uploading of the students’ data on the university’s portal. As soon as this is concluded, all the results will be released.”
Commending the students for their patience, he listed causes for the delay of the result to include: closure of universities due to Covid-19 pandemic, ASUU strike, affiliation processes including series of meetings, consultations and signing of MoU, time needed to process results and uploading the students’ data on the University’s portal (as in the case of UI).
The NTI boss stated: “The institute is committed to providing quality teachers for the country by training teachers while on the job. All the institute’s activities and programmes are made flexible and favourable to students. The delay in the release of the PGDE students’ results particularly, that of the South West, is one of the institute’s hard times from the outset.”
Mamman explained that the institute runs Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and Bachelor’s Degree in Education (BDPs) in collaboration (affiliation with six Nigerian universities for the PGDE and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and University of Maiduguri for the degree programmes.
His words: “The Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) was at the initial stage affiliated with Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and later with the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).
“In 2017, the institute, after consultations with the relevant stakeholders and the desire to enhance quality, wide acceptance and accessibility to every interested Nigerian, decentralised the affiliation to six universities across the six geo-political zones.
This decision was taken after the approval of the National Universities Commission (NUC). The universities involved are: Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (North West), University of Maiduguri (North East), University of Ilorin (North Central), Nnamdi Azikwe University, Awka, (South East), University of Port Harcourt (South South) and University of Ibadan (South West).
Earlier at a meeting held with the students and other stakeholders, the UI director of the Directorate of Affiliation, Professor Wole Akinsola, said that the results had passed through the relevant processes.
He said, corroborating the NTI boss, that the results would be released any moment from now.
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