The Federal Polytechnic in Bauchi State has installed closed-circuit television cameras in some strategic examination halls to tackle insecurity and also curtail the menace of examination malpractice.
The rector of the institution, Sani Usman, stated this in an interview with newsmen on Sunday on the sidelines of the 2025 resource inspection and accreditation visit by the National Board for Technical Education to the polytechnic.
The rector said, “We have incorporated CCTV cameras in some key classes because most of our classrooms now have solar inverters that we use for that.
“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.”
According to the rector, 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 are always up to date and conform to the needs of the time the accreditation was taking place.
Usman stated that the NBTE team was in the institution to accredit 78 programmes.
“They have come, it has been done and it’s over now and we are going to await their findings,” he stated.
Also speaking, the Director of Polytechnic Programmes and Team Lead, NBTE, Fatima Umar, urged the institution to work towards bridging the infrastructure and manpower deficits.
Represented by an official of the board, Adesina Oluade, the director 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.
She said the exercise was aimed at strengthening quality assurance mechanisms, assuring the polytechnic of fair and transparent assessment.
