Saturday, November 23, 2024

52,000 diploma students receive stipend

Around 52,000 diploma students from the 93 polytechnics institutions in the country have received stipends under the Skills and Training Enhancement Project financed by the World Bank. Nearly nine per cent of the stipend-recipient students are female. Out of the 93 polytechnics, 43 are public and 50 are private institutions, according to a World Bank ... Read more

No principal at 31 of 45 polytechnic institutions

Thirty-one out of the 49 government polytechnic and equivalent institutions are running without principals and only 14 of them have vice-principals, according to Directorate of Technical Education officials. About 45 per cent of teaching positions at these institutions vacant which, the teachers and students said, is seriously hampering academic and administrative