By Adeola Badru

A team of officials of the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, led by the Director, NEW TVET, Institution Registration Department, Dr. (Mrs) Fatima Kabir Umar has visited Iseyin on implementation and physical infrastructure inspection towards the process of accreditation of four courses for Iseyin College of Science and Health Technology, Iseyin, Oyo State.

The team met with the Proprietor of the College, Mr Adewale Owoseni, the Acting Provost, Mr Peter Ibiyosi and the management members of the institution, who took the visitors around the school facilities after a series of meetings with the hosts.

While speaking with newsmen after the visit, Dr. Fatima hinted that the visit was hinged upon assessing the readiness of the institution to offer courses in medical and health technology.

She said: “We came on master plan implementation and physical infrastructure inspection to the school and we have done all the needful to assess the readiness of the school to train students in health technology.

“The school authority made good preparations ahead of our arrival and we are impressed with what we saw on ground,” she stated.

The Proprietor, Owoseni, said the institution has put all necessary things in place to train students that would make positive impact in the medical practice in Nigeria and beyond.

He added that the three courses that the NBTE team came to inspect the school for included National Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology, National Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology and National Diploma in Community Health Technology.

“These three courses are most important in the medical industry and we are poised to train students that will not just get certificates without job, but those that will easily get employment opportunities and as well establish personal health facilities of their owns to provide health services to the people,” he said.