Cooperative experts brainstorm on enhancing curriculum for higher colleges.

As the need to enhance the rural communities financial status is gathering momentum through an organ of organized cooperatives, experts in the sector development through micro financing have gathered to put in place an effective curriculum that will ensure positive knowledge impartation on the small and medium scale entrepreneurs in the local areas thereby making fund available for their business in a standardized and regulated process. 

The meeting under the chairmanship of the director of cooperative department, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Dr. Dickson Okolo held at the Kaduna Federal College of Cooperative critically brainstorm on the appropriate curriculum that will be recommended for use in all the three colleges across the country and other polytechnics as the economics dynamics of using micro financing to drive a growing economics like ours is inevitable through a regulated cooperatives.  

In his remark, Dr. Okolo said that the importance of cooperative colleges to developing economics have been relegated thereby pointing the need to reposition all the Institutes as a knowledge based tools to drive micro rural financing where graduating students would have been better equipped to be useful in training and enhancing small and medium scale enterprises in the rural areas adding that a more comprehensive and standard curriculum to achieve this must be put in place.

Dr. Okolo pointed that research conducted on the colleges revealed that the curriculum being used for the past years have not been reviewed to meet the economics dynamics of micro financing to  small and medium enterprise in the rural communities adding the “ the colleges have no autonomy of themselves to operate effectively and in the face of the economic debase of the country, there is need to ensure that the positive impact of it trickles down to our villagers through a well organized micro financing cooperatives that will enable fund availability to them”

He therefore crave for proactive contribution to the development of the new curriculum for the colleges that will address the issue of rural financing and better repositioning of the Institutes in a way that will attract more students to take career in rural financing and cooperative development in growing the economy.

Architect T. O Adekunle from National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) emphasized on the need for standardization of any process thereby enjoining the stakeholders to bring constructive contributions that will ensure standard in the practice of small and medium enterprises in moving our economy forward through a detailed curriculum for our colleges and polytechnics.

Also in her speech, the Acting Provost of the college, Hajiya Aisha Ismail Ishaq commended the proactiveness of the Dr. Okolo in the repositioning of all the entire areas of cooperative organs in the federation adding that his efforts has been greatly felt in all the colleges added that the meeting is expected to come up with a well articulated curriculum that will address the problem of accessing rural credits in a sustainable way of reducing poverty at the local communities of Nigeria.