SENATE AGRIC COLLEGES PLANS ROADMAP TO GIVE NIG AGRIC INSTITUTIONS INTERN. RECOGNITION By Musa Usman

 


Worried by the low rating and non-recognition of Nigerian Agricultural Institutions internationally, the Senate Committee on Agric Institutions has put in place a roadmap that will give international recognition and standards to the institutions.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Agric Colleges and Institutions, Sen. Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli disclosed this at an interaction section with stakeholders in Agricultural Colleges and Institutions. According to him, the measures/roadmap will include: consultative meetings with strategic stakeholders, National Legislative Summit and NACAI Launch, COP30 Pavilion for Agricultural Colleges, Parliamentary Exchange and Global Benchmarking Tour and Interactive Stakeholder Sessions across Nigeria.

He posited that currently, Agricultural Institutions/Colleges rank among the 200 top best globally in traditional agricultural practices but these institutions instead of modern technology systems and practice and lack of infrastructure facilities.

Sen. Alli noted, these informed the Committee to strategically map out measures to give the Country Agricultural Colleges international standards and recognition, that will earn them high rating globally.



Explaining the objectives and benefit of the roadmap, the Chairman pointed that they include partnership pledges, co-created project ideas, stakeholders owned performance indicators, harmonized stakeholders inputs, shared responsibility model and documentation of opportunities and challenges.



Other initiative: Networking hub to be derived from National Legislative Summit and NACAI launch, Program/project incubation, Monitoring and Impact Reporting.



Others, include NACAI institutionalization, enhanced visibility for institutions, stakeholder database and working groups establishment. The further deployment of the COP30 Pavilion for Agricultural Colleges will bring global partnership for green funding and technology adoption, international recognition of Nigerian Agricultural Institutions and the positioning of Colleges as climate action champions.

Accordingly, the Parliamentary Exchange and Global Benchmarking Tour will result in adoption of global standards, new curricula and teaching models as well as putting in place framework for international collaboration and student exchange programme.



The meeting which has its theme: Challenges and Opportunities in Agricultural Education, had stakeholders passionately speaking on the challenges facing Agricultural education in the Country with many identifying funding and infrastructure facilities for these institutions, which the Committee pledges to address by the legislative process of budgetary provision.



The Chairman remarked these roadmaps will enable connection of Nigerian Colleges to global Climate-Smart and showcase their role in sustainability thereby bring about international recognition and high standard especially with Parliamentary and Global Benchmarking tour, which will engage policymakers, educators and students in knowledge transfer which are vital for high standard requirements globally, global assessments and rating.

He added Annual Report and Yearbook production which are part of the roadmap achievements will spotlight accomplishments, faith, innovations and institutional statistics – criteria for global ratings.

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