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By Akanji Alowolodo, Bauchi
Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has been described as an educational approach that is focused on specific attributes in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitude that must be exhibited by graduating students.
Therefore, in other to achieve its set objectives, a total of 120 participants from across institutions in the North-East zone have been selected to attend a 2-day workshop at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in Bauchi on OBE.
The workshop is a collaborative effort between the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), aimed at equipping North-East universities’ staff on ‘Outcome Based Education’ (OBE).
While speaking during the commencement of the training for the on Friday, the Vice Chancellor, ATBU, Professor Muhammad AbdulAzeez, said that the training was meant for both academic and non academic staff of Faculty of Engineering in all the Universities of the North-East.
According to him, the Outcome-Based Education is an approach to education that prioritized learning outcomes over the traditional approach of focusing on rote memorization.
He explained that the focus was to develop essential skills, such as critical thinking and problem solving rather than simply learning facts.
According to the VC, “Today, our educational system needs to be more focused on producing graduates who are equipped with the skills needed to be successful in the workforce.”
He added that, “Outcome-Based Education can help ensure that we are producing graduates with the necessary skills, as well as the knowledge, to be successful in today’s world.”
“It is thus our belief that Outcome-Based Education will help to create a more equitable educational system by focusing on essential skills that would ensure all students, regardless of their background or educational history, have the opportunity to develop the skills necessary for success,” he said.
Also speaking, the Registrar of COREN, Professor Ademola Adisa, said that the main goal of the workshop was to train the participants to acquire knowledge and skills of Outcome-Based Education so as to train others in its implementation in Nigeria universities.
He listed the regions where such a workshop had taken place as; Ahmadu Bello University for the Northwest, University of Benin for the South-South, Enugu state University for the South-East.
Others, he said, included University of Abuja for the North Central, University of Ibadan and Afe Babalola University for the South-West.
According to him, “The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria is a statutory organ of the federal government of Nigeria that was established by decree Number 5 of 1970 and amended by decree Number 27 of 1992.”
The Registrar added that, “COREN has the mandate to regulate and control the practice of Engineering in all aspects and ramifications.”
“At the education level, on behalf of the federal government of Nigeria, COREN determines the academic standards of courses and accredited programmes to be offered by the institutions that are training engineering personnel,” he said.
Some of the participants who spoke to Journalists including, Abdulrasak Kamal, appreciated the ATBU and COREN for the training and promised to participate wholeheartedly in other to achieve the set objectives of the training.
