The Deputy Governor of Osun State, Mrs. Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, has denounce that the government is not planning to scrap any of its tertiary institutions.

Laoye-Tomori said this in a statement issued after she briefed members of the state House of Assembly Committee on Education over the development in the education sector. She said the government had advised the institutions to harmonise their courses to avoid duplication of courses and ensure that graduates of the institutions acquire appropriate skills that could make them job creators after graduation.

She said, “The government has directed the Forum of Chairmen of the Governing Board of the Institutions to review their programmes and come up with a position paper on how to make our students job creators instead of job seekers after graduation. We want our polytechnics to run courses that would meet the need of the nation and make the graduates self-reliant

“Towards this end, the government has directed all the tertiary institutions to devote 50 per cent of their admission quota to their main programmes, 25 per cent should be devoted to  remedial programmes to cater for the youths that could not gain admission into any tertiary institution.

“Finally, the polytechnics are to devote 25 per cent of their admission to vocational, technical and skill acquisition courses where graduates that want to acquire such skills can enrol and where artisans that want to sharpen their skills and acquire certificates can also be admitted while the Colleges of Education are to devote 25 per cent of their admission quota to running of continuous education programmes for training of teachers from all over the state and beyond.”

Earlier before that, the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Folorunsho Bamisayemi, had commended the government for the way it handled the issues in the state education sector.

He said the a series of controversies that had ensued over the education policy of government was an indication that it was committed to get things done in the sector by not dodging the issues, but proffering solutions to them.

Bamisayemi said the paucity of funds required that the government should come up with ingenious ways of sustaining the system and increasing the quality in the system.