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HND DEGREE DISPARITY, THE CAUSE OF PROBLEM IN NIGERIA
HND/Degree Dichotomy: A Threat To Technical, Polytechnic Education In Nigeria (II)
By Sundayundayunday Egede
Continued From Last Week Monday
SPEAKING on the dichotomy between HND and degree holders in a recent interview with The Pointer, the immediate
past Rector of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, Chief (Dr.) Mrs. Edna Nneka Mogekwu said “there is no justification for the discrimination against holders of HND in the country. The dichotomy between HND and Bachelors Degree holders should not exist. There is a Federal Government policy which is expected to promote parity
between HND holders and university degree holders. I blame the Federal Government
for not implementing its policy which was aimed at abrogating the disparity
between B.Sc. and HND holders. It was the same Federal Government that made the policy statement that holders of the two certificates (B.Sc. and HND) are equal that was violating the policy. There is contradiction
in the Federal Government policy. The issue of dichotomy has to do with the Federal Government’s inability to be honest
because if the Federal Government is honest, it will enforce the implementation of the policy statement.”
“Who has the Federal Government ever sanctioned for discriminating against HND holders? I have not seen anybody that has been sanctioned. I can give instances of where the Federal Government has even violated its policy statement on the issue of dichotomy between B.Sc. and HND holders.
We raised these students (polytechnic students) for six years in a very serious manner to be the agents of technological development and when they come out (graduate) you say they cannot be equal with their B.Sc. counterparts. Is that fair? So, if the Federal Government is violating the policy, who are they going to punish. Our students are not failures and years to come, the nation may regret what is happening now vis-à-vis the disparity,” Mogekwu added.
In any case, Mogekwu said, we (Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku) are even training our students to become self-employed
as students of the polytechnic are doing excellently well in all departments in the institution; students of the polytechnic are highly skilled that some of them are not even interested in working under anybody. About four weeks ago, the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) requested that we should send our National Diploma (ND) holders to them for immediate employment and we sent 65 ND certificate holders who graduated from our institution to them and they are now working with BEDC.
On its part, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has appealed to the Federal Government to remove all discriminatory
policies affecting the growth of polytechnics and colleges of education system in the country. Mr. Adeyemi Aromolaran,
the Chairman, Yaba College of Technology branch of ASUP, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recently in Lagos that some of the educational policies of the Federal Government were retarding development
of polytechnic education system.
Aromolaran said that until all the unfriendly
policies are abolished, the country would not have an effective polytechnic system that would be acceptable by all. He said that Nigeria should adopt the British
educational system and upgrade all polytechnics and colleges of technology to become universities of technology.
“We need to look at the British example of running educational programmes, because that is where Nigeria copied the polytechnic education system from. Britain
had abolished polytechnics long time ago. All polytechnics have been turned to universities of technology in that country,” he added.
Aromolaran noted that admission figures into the nation’s polytechnics and colleges of education were going down every year due to unfavourable government policies. “So long as we still continue with the system
we are running, discrimination will persist and consequently, the decline in admission into polytechnics will continue to dwindle,’’ he said, pointing out that “this is part of what the union has been agitating
against.’’
He said that with the dichotomy between the polytechnic diploma and the university degree, no enlightened person would want his or her child to go to the polytechnic. According to him, most youths are drifting toward acquiring university education.
“ASUP has not been keeping quiet, but government’s responses have not been favourable,” Aromolaran said, adding that the union would continue to protest and resist all attempts to diminish the progress and development of polytechnic education in the country.
Meanwhile, the National Council on Establishment
(NCE) has abrogated a major dichotomy between HND and degree holders
which essentially borders on salary grade levels at the point of entry into the service. At its 39th meeting held between Monday 18 and Friday 22, July 2016 at Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre, Minna, Niger State which was presided over by the Chairman of NCE and the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita, the council, arising from its deliberations
and discussions, approved entry point salary GL.08 for all candidates possessing HND from institutions accredited
by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). This was contained in a communique jointly signed by the NCE Chairman, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita and Secretary, Mrs. Nuratu Batagarawa at the end of the meeting which was attended by Heads of Service from 33 states of the federation and representatives of the Federal
Capital Territory.
Interestingly, one of the states of the federation that have implemented the resolution reached at the 39th meeting of the National Council on Establishment is Kano. A circular letter titled: “Removal of Dichotomy Between Higher National Diploma
(HND) and Degree Holders” signed by the Director, Establishment, Musa Tanko Garko on behalf of Kano State Head of Civil of Service, said “as part of the present administration’s
ongoing initiatives/reforms towards improving the working condition of civil servants and ensure sustained industrial
harmony for effective and efficient service delivery, Kano State Government has approved the adoption of the resolution
of the 39th meeting of the National Council on Establishment (NCE) bridging the disparity that existed between HND and Degree holders in the public service.
Accordingly, the circular said, henceforth, all HND holders that have acquired a Post Graduate Diploma in relevant fields from a recognised university will be eligible for conversion on the same cadre and identical grade level.
The Kano State example is, indeed, a commendable initiative aimed at enabling polytechnics in the country to sustain its relevance in the nation’s educational terrain.
It is expected that other states in the country should, as a matter of urgency, do the needful by emulating the Kano State example in this regard so that the issue of dichotomy between HND and Degree holders in the country will be a thing of the past.
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