The Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi state has installed CCTV cameras in some strategic examination halls to curtail the menace of examination malpractice in the institution.
Alh. Sani Usman, the Rector of the institution stated this in an interview with newsmen on Sunday at the sideline of the 2025 resource inspection and accreditation visit by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to the Polytechnic.
“We have incorporated the camera in some key classes because most of our classrooms now have solar inverters that we use for that.
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“I’m assuring you that we are also working on a TETfund research that has been granted for the last two years and the research is almost completed so that CCTVs can also be put outside of the classroom’s environment.
“This move is further to tackle insecurity as well as examination fraud that takes place outside of the classrooms in the institution,” said the Rector.
According to him, the inspection and accreditation exercise by the NBTE would give the Polytechnic the opportunity to continue running its programmes by evaluating what had been done in the last five years.
He added that it would also enable the management of the institution to make sure that the equipment, personnel and other resources used were always up to date and conform to the needs of the time the accreditation was taking place.
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Usman also explained that the NBTE was in the institution to accredited 78 programmes.
“They have come, it has been done and it’s over now and we are going to await their findings,” he said.
Also speaking, Dr Fatima Umar, Director of Polytechnic Programmes and Team Lead, NBTE Accreditation to the institution, urged the institution to work towards bridging the infrastructure and manpower deficits.
Represented by Mr Adesina Oluade, a Staff of the board, Umar called for proactive measures to address the peculiar challenges of the 78 programmes such as lack of students handbook, journals and erratic power supply, among others.
Umar, who said that the exercise was aimed at strengthening quality assurance mechanisms, assured the Polytechnic of fair and transparent assessment.
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