Nigerian universities to implement admission quotas for engineering programs

This decision, announced by Professor Sadiq Abubakar, President of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria COREN, aims to enhance the quality of engineering education and practical training. The quotas will ensure that universities admit only the number of students that their existing infrastructure, laboratories, workshops, equipment, and academic staff can adequately support. This move is intended to produce competent graduates with stronger hands-on skills who can compete globally.

COREN is also working with the National Board for Technical Education to introduce similar controls for polytechnic engineering programs. Additionally, COREN has reintroduced the indexing and oath-taking for engineering graduates, along with a mandatory one-year Engineering Residency Program for degree and Higher National Diploma holders before their National Youth Service Corps. The council has also trained and certified 239 engineering infrastructure failure and forensic investigators and 839 engineering program evaluators to strengthen accreditation and quality assurance.

COREN has intensified compliance inspections, expanded regional offices, digitized registration, and reactivated its disciplinary tribunal to bolster engineering regulation and address failures stemming from n