The Federal Government has been urged to grant polytechnics in the
country the right to award degrees to their students, independent of
universities so as to stop the discrimination between polytechnic and
university graduates. This has been a subject the FG try as much as
possible to give a deaf ear to but yet the matter will always be
presented.
The Federal Government has been urged to grant polytechnics in the
country the right to award degrees to their students, independent of
universities. The National President, Academic Staff Union of
Polytechnics (ASUP), Comrade Chibuzor Asomugha, made the call in
Kano when the union conferred an award of excellence on the
immediate-past Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau.
Asomugha said the discrimination between polytechnic and university
graduates calls for urgent action, including granting the right to award
degrees to the former.
“We have pleaded with government to actually grant the polytechnics the
right to award degrees – we are saying this because we know that
government is a continuum and that there are people in this hall, whom
we know will, again, control the reins of government in this country and
we are praying that when the time comes, they would remember our
plea,” he said.
The union boss said it is unfair that polytechnic graduates have to suffer
discrimination even though the same lecturers that teach them teach their
university counterparts. “You train a graduate, give him a Bachelor’s
degree in Kaduna Polytechnic or Yabatech or Oko, and the certificate
would bear ABU or BUK.
“But this same person has been taught by the same lecturers and the
same facilities as the HND holders and these HND holders move into the
market with the same people who have passed through the same class
and they are discriminated against.
“They are said to be lower in intellect and acumen and they had been in
the same class with these people taught by the same lecturers and at a
point in their career, they are stopped at Grade level 14 while their
colleagues would go ahead of them, manning them.”
Asomugha indicted the government for not paying “proper attention” to
the problem over the years, adding that industries suffering as students
abandon polytechnics for degrees.
“The manpower to man these industries, the core technical experts to
man industries is not there anymore. People would prefer to go and read
Philosophy or Public Administration, instead of studying engineering in
the polytechnics just because they would not like to have HND.
“I think that government would have to do a rethink.” The B.Sc/HND
dichotomy has been a major issue in the education sector for a long
while.
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12 Responses
Dat Wil B Beta.
by #ENYCE on Sep 9, 2015 at 5:42 pm Reply
b.tech
by Anonymous on Sep 9, 2015 at 5:48 pm Reply
orwhat do you f
by Anonymous on Sep 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm Reply
b.tech for hnd
by kutanian on Sep 9, 2015 at 5:50 pm Reply
true talk
by golden son on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:15 pm Reply
Tank god at last,
by mario on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:20 pm Reply
That’s a great idea , i would be happy if the FG can focus on the
discrimination. Cuz its unfair we need to be treated equally in the
sector market.
by bims on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:44 pm Reply
i pray PMB listens to ur cry
by josh on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:48 pm Reply
gr8 hope for d HND graduates. I_rep_sokpoly
by josh on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm Reply
For mi changin HND tu B.Tech won’t b a long lastin solution tu d
problem @ hand, as a mata of fact its just a name changin formula
which can’t stand d test of tyme. i suggest govt shud place both(HND
& B.sc) at same level n same grade, this in a way cud help solve d
prob and as wel coprorate bodies shud b sanctioned against violatin
such principle(s)….
by segun ilori on Sep 9, 2015 at 6:55 pm Reply
I pray they give us ooo,its not just about the qualification,its what we
got upstairs,i just pray they grant it shaa!
by anonymous on Sep 9, 2015 at 7:09 pm Reply
4 una mind…lolss
by AYOMIDEY on Sep 9, 2015 at 7:31 pm Reply
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