Osun Poly organises Workshop on Vocational and Skills Acquisition

 

The Rector, Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Comrade Kehinde Adeyemi Alabi has reiterated his commitment to ensure that all diplomates of the Institution aquire various skills that would make them employers of labour, rather than job seekers.

The Rector, while speaking through his Deputy, Dr. Gboyega Oluwaseun Oyeleke at a two-day workshop on Skills Acquisition in  Food Processing and Hospitality as well as GSM Phone Maintenance and Repair.

Facilitated by Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) stated that "it is important for the students to aquire a skill in addition to their primary course of studies in the institution, so that they could be self reliant and multi dimensional professionals."

Speaking at the programme, the Institution's Director of Skills Acquisition, Engr. Bunmi Oluseyi Ola disclosed that the Directorate of Skills Acquisition has packaged over 22 skills for the students which they can acquire to make them self reliant, even after their graduation in the polytechnic.

Engr Ola noted " the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has made it a policy for all graduating students in the Nigerian Polytechnics to have a vocational trade which can make them entrepreneurs with little funds to establish themselves.

The Computer Engineering Specialist listed, Catering Services,   Phone  Repair, Plumbing, Computer Repair, Videography, Photography and Maintenance,  Event Planning and Management, Tie and Batik, Sewing and Fashion Design, Poultry Management, Snail Farming, Grass Cutter Rearing, Piggery, Production of Detergents and Confectionaries, Mechatronics, Car Service and Alignment Maintenance, Ceramics, and many others as part of the skills that are already packaged in the institution for the students.

It would be recalled that in 2025, the Institution, through its Directorates of Skills Acquisition and Students Affairs in collaboration with the NBTE organised a sensitisation programme for the students on the imperatives of Skills Acquisitions. During the programme, the South West representative of the NBTE, Mr Ayo Aroge made the students realise that '

"apart from earning them entrepreneurs, it is also lucrative in the labour market in the outside world."

No fewer than about 28 students from various faculties in the polytechnic; Science, Engineering, Arts and Industrial Design, Information and Communication Technology, Environmental Studies, Technical and Vocational Education, Financal Studies and Management Studies participated actively in the two-day workshop. The

Director of the programme, Engr. Bunni Ola on behalf of the management thanked the  TETfund for the sponsorship of the programme, assuring that the institution would not relent on it's efforts to equip the students intellectually in vocational and skills acquisitions.

Also, while speaking, some of the students who participated at the workshop, enthused that "the workshop was very enriching and productive. They assured that the skills acquired in the training would be made fruitful  and productive in their lives.