The Provost of Federal Cooperative College Kaduna, Dr. Ibrahim Muhammed Awwal, has said that the College has established new practical and monitoring structures to support the rollout of the revised agriculture curriculum. He stated this yesterday during an interview with TVET NEWS MONITOR on the sidelines of the Agriculture Curriculum Review Workshop organised by the National Board For Technical Education in Kaduna.

He said students on the ND Cooperative Economics and Management programme and the College’s one-year professional diploma will undertake a 12-week supervised industrial attachment with active agricultural cooperatives and agribusiness firms.

He said a digital cooperative laboratory has been set up with agritech partners to simulate cooperative management information systems, mobile savings platforms, and digital record-keeping processes.

He said the College’s demonstration farm and student consumer shop are being used as live training sites where learners handle production cycles, processing, and marketing under supervision.

He said value chain clinics have been introduced in partnership with rice, maize, and poultry associations in Kaduna State to give students exposure to commodity-specific operations.

He said an internal quality assurance unit has been created to track delivery against NBTE minimum standards and collect feedback from students and industry each semester.

He said an industry advisory board with NBTE, cooperative federations, and employers will review the curriculum’s relevance and recommend adjustments as needed.

He said the College is shifting assessment to competency-based methods that include practical demonstrations and project defence, not only written examinations.

He said lecturers are undergoing continuous training on cooperative pedagogy and digital tools through NBTE and College-sponsored workshops.

He said graduate employment, cooperative formation, and business survival rates will be tracked as key indicators to assess the impact of the new curriculum.