The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) will undertake an inspection visit of the facilities at the Regional Training Centre (RTC) of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) at Oshodi-Lagos.
This followed an application for accreditation of National Diploma (ND) courses offered at the Centre by NiMet.
According to the Director General and Chief Executive Officer of NiMet, Professor Charles Anosike, NBTE has approved the advisory inspection visit to the RTC Oshodi as a precursor to the running of the ND programmes at the RTC, Oshodi, Lagos.
He noted that the agency is saddled with the responsibility of not only providing weather information, but also training manpower in the fields of Meteorology and Climate Sciences.
His words: “The World Meteorological Organisation Regional Training Centre (WMO RTC) Oshodi, Lagos established in 1957, is responsible for the Meteorological Manpower Training for NiMet. Over the years, the WMO RTC,has been running and issuing only certificate courses because it has no national monitoring and accrediting body. This is not good enough.
Continuing, Professor Anosike said; “To further fortify and expand the training horizon of the WMO RTC, we approached the Management of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Kaduna, to express interest in running Diploma Programmes in: ND Meteorology and ND Climate Change Science”.
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