Federal Government Shut Down Crown Polytechnic

THE monitoring body for tertiary technical institutionsin the country, the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), has withdrawn the accreditation ofall programmes offered at Crown Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, citing breach of standards.

According to a letter to the institution's Proprietor, dated August 2, 2013, and signed by NBTE Executive Secretary, Dr. Masa'udu Kazaure, the "withdrawal of accreditation of programmes in Crown Polytechnic hasb ecome necessary in view of myriad petitions received from organizations, government agencies and students on the conduct and operation of the polytechnic."
Kazaure explained: "Subsequent investigation by the Board revealed that the polytechnic had been operating in contravention of the Basic MinimumAcademic Standards as prescribed by law."

The Board noted: "Crown Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, had been running ND and HND programmes in 30 centres across the country, particularly in Yenagoa, Kabba, Akure, Ondo and in various towns in Ekiti State. This is incontravention of the Federal Executive Council's directive against operation of satellite/outreach centres by all tertiary education institutionsin the country.

"It was further established that the Polytechnic had been running unapproved ND programmes in Urban and Regional Planning, Quantity Surveying and PublicAdministration and had submitted list of students formobilisation to NYSC in unapproved HND Computer Science and Electrical/Electronics Engineering programmes."