Nigeria Fed Government Discontinues HND Certificate Programs in Polytechnics
The Nigerian Government on June 6, 2018 confirmed it volition halt awarding HND Certificate for Polytechnic graduates together with introduced novel rules upon which this latest evolution volition live on construct upon. Read this press liberate from dailypost.ng.
The determination was reached at the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wed where the blessing of a comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s 3rd instruction organisation was made.
In effect, the honour of HND Certificate volition live on express to solely the students currently admitted for the programmes.
Also, all the programmes currently beingness run past times polytechnics, which are non technology-based, together with which are close seventy per cent, volition live on scrapped.
Under the novel rule, the polytechnics volition at nowadays move out campuses of the proximate universities amongst the Vice Chancellors of those universities appointing provosts for the polytechnics, dependent champaign to the ratification of the Universities Councils.
The polytechnics volition at nowadays live on express to honour of the National Diploma (ND) spell those desirous of farther instruction volition live on awarded the Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) past times the proximate university.
To kick-start the novel policy, the nation’s ii most prominent polytechnics – Yaba College of Technology together with Kaduna Polytechnic – volition henceforth live on known every bit City University of Technology, Yaba together with City University of Technology, Kaduna.
And to give legal teeth to these approvals, the FEC approved the submission of ii Executive bills to the National Assembly for enactment.
With instruction beingness on the concurrent list, the states may want to consolidate their 3rd institutions. But if they practise non want to follow the federal example, their programmes volition move out on to live on regulated past times the relevant agencies of the Federal Ministry of Education.
The start nib volition concretise the setting upwards of the ii metropolis universities spell the minute volition approve the training together with consolidation of all federal polytechnics together with colleges of instruction every bit campuses of proximate universities.
The Ministry of Justice volition practise the training together with submission of the ii bills to the National Assembly.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, told journalists subsequently the weekly coming together of the council that nether the reform measures, his ministry building would, however, move out on to license person polytechnics together with colleges of instruction for the honour of qualification at ND together with National Certificate inwards Education (NCE) levels.
He said, “There volition live on no to a greater extent than honour of HND Certificate.
“After nosotros lead maintain exhausted the electrical flow students nether the programme, at that topographic point volition live on no to a greater extent than honour of HND Certificate. This way that at that topographic point volition live on no fresh admission for HND programmes. And inwards addition, whatever programme that is non technical volition live on out of the polytechnics.
“About seventy per cent of polytechnic graduates are inwards the non-technical courses. It is going to live on a rigorous implementation programme.”
A ministerial commission to ensure the smoothen implementation of all that is required for the take-off of the reform initiatives is to laid out operate immediately.
Adamu said, “The HND certificate volition stay a legal tender inwards Nigeria together with holders of such certificate volition move out on to live on recognised every bit the equivalent of start aeroplane holders without discriminatory remunerations together with boundary to progression inwards the operate place.
“The NCE certificate volition live on retained every bit the minimum teaching qualification at the basic aeroplane of education. Any higher qualifications past times these person or state-owned polytechnics volition live on solely affiliation amongst a university. So, HND is no longer inwards existence, simply existing HND volition live on respected together with considered legal tender.”
So what practise y'all recollect close this motion past times the Nigerian Government? Personally, I recollect ending this HND together with BSC Dichotomy is long overdue. Anyway, y'all tin give the sack cheque this out list of federal universities inwards Nigeria that accepts minute alternative candidates.
