Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday said polytechnics should be restructured to prepare students to take greater responsibilities in nation building.
Aregbesola noted that technical education was the basis of development and wealth condition in any society. “It will help farmers on how to farm competitively and derive maximum yields on a given investment per hectare of land within the parameters of best global practices. Aregbesola said some universities and polytechnics graduates acquired bland certificates that do not equip the holders with life sustaining skills, even as they roam the streets looking for jobs and turned down by employers.
“We find out most of the time that their knowledge and skills are obsolete and even for the promising ones among them, they have to be trained and retrained to be able to fit into a workplace.He stressed the need for polytechnics to prepare their students for a competitive job market with indisputable job skills so that employers would find them irresistible.