Professor Ramon Adedoyin , the proprietor of The polytechnic Ile-Ife and the Oduduwa university Ipetumodu, Osun state, on Thursday has aired his displeasure in the discrimination between the university degree award (BSc) and the polytechnic Award (HND). Higher National Diploma should be scrapped and replace with Bachelor's degree in technology as practice in advanced nations.
He said " The removal of the disparity between HND and university degree by the Federal Government was a welcome idea,but the Federal Government ought to convert all existing polytechnics to degree-awarding institutions and direct all polytechnics to affiliate with existing universities and advised that OND holders should be admitted into 300 Level (Direct Entry) for B.Tech, B.A or B.Sc programmes.
He said, “The present HND programme is archaic which is why developed countries like the United States and Britain, which Nigerian educational system is modelled after, have jettisoned the programme a long time ago in favour of Bachelor’s degree in Technology.
“I advise the government to retain the national diploma programmes as professional certificates which could be used as direct entry admission requirement into university degree programmes.”
He noted that because of the refusal of the government to upgrade polytechnics to degree-awarding institutions, Nigerian polytechnics had not been able to play their true roles as the pivot for technological development.
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