It said that the aim of the meeting was to resolve all outstanding issues and demands by the union and reach concrete agreement
Browsing: Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics
The Union passed a vote of no confidence on the National Board for Technical Education due to its inability to meet the needs and demands of polytechnic education in the country, calling for the immediate establishment of a National Polytechnics Commission, which would cater for the needs of the sector
The decision was reached on Tuesday at the National Executive Committee meeting of ASUP
The committee; the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i; and her Labour and Productivity counterpart, Chief Emeka Wogu, had met with the union on July 9, urging them to call-off the strike
Adeyemi told NAN that the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education had on Thursday informed the union that a circular addressing the issues had been issued
The National Assembly Joint Committee on Education had called the aggrieved unions in the nation’s higher institutions for a dialogue on the way forward in their ongoing industrial action