Quantity surveyors: Registrar tasks training institutions on quality
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Infrastructure
By Uche Bibilari/Jacinta Nwachukwu
Abuja, Jan. 31, 2018 (NAN) Mr Godson Moneke, the Registrar, Quantity Surveyor Registration Board of Nigeria (QSRBN), has advised tertiary institutions training quantity surveyors to ensure that they do not compromise quality.
Moneke gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.
The registrar said that the board was interested in having quantity surveyors who could compete with their counterparts outside the country.
According to him, there is need for a holistic and robust curriculum for the institutions, so that students can access standard training that will enable them practice efficiently.
“We want to see how we can make Nigeria’s quantity surveyors to be certified in ability to use quality infrastructure.
“The board wants to ensure that modern equipment is used to lecture the students.
“This is because some institutions use substandard equipment for lecturing and training of their quantity surveyors.
“By ensuring this, the product and services we have in Nigeria can also be traded across jurisdictions; such that someone who is a registered quantity surveyor can practice anywhere without limitations.
“This era of globalisation also comes with international mobility of labour; it should not be limited to foreigners coming to Nigeria and getting what they want.
“It should also be that Nigerians can also venture out without being discriminated against,’’ he said.
Moneke warned that any institution that used substandard equipment for lecturing would not be certified for the training of quantity surveyors.
He urged the managements of quantity surveying departments in tertiary institutions to prioritise their needs in terms of lecturing equipment.
According to him, the board always sends panels to universities and polytechnics offering quantity surveying course before accrediting them to ensure they have the required equipment for lecturing.
He disclosed that during their tour, institutions were scored based on the equipment and resources they had, adding that each section had a maximum scores allotted to it.
“They can score high point in one area and in another area, score zero; what we also do is that we make known our observations from what we see on the ground.
“We have what we call exit interviews with whoever is the institutions’ Vice-Chancellor; where we specify areas they need to correct.
“We want to ensure that the students are not just academically suitable, but professionally suitable to practice quantity surveying globally,’’ Moneke said. (NAN)
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Edited by Oluyinka Fadare/Felix Ajide