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Lecturers from the University of Lagos, UNILAG have
kicked against the federal government's directive to
scrap the award of the Higher National Diploma (HND)
by polytechnics in the country. The lecturers claimed
that the move would result in more unemployments for
polytechnic lecturers. The Federal Government had given a directive that Polytechnics should upgrade to
campuses of the proximate universities with the Vice
Chancellors of the upgraded universities appointing
provosts for the polytechnics, subject to the ratification
of the Universities’ Councils.


Acting Head, Mass Communication Department, UNILAG,
Dr. Oluruntola Sunday, said that the move by Federal
Ministry of Education will not augur well as certain
machineries ought to have been put in place before
declaring the outright scrapping of HND by polytechnics.




Prof Sunday noted that since most lecturers in
polytechnics have to upgrade their degrees to a higher
level so as to enable them fit into the university system,
many lecturers may lose their jobs due to constraints of
time, age , finance and even unfavourable structures.



“Although, in terms of financial benefits, polytechnic
lecturers earn more than their universities counterpart.
But, both qualifications and expectations as regard
lecturing differ. So, for government to declare change of
the status quo of the polytechnics; they have to put
things in place. For example,the consideration for
lecturers in polytechnics to upgrade their degrees to
varsity equivalent will and need to arise.





“ If this arise, the implication is that some lecturers may
lose their jobs due to certain constraint that has to do
with their age, experience, time , finance and the issue of
automatic change from what they were used to.



The question is, what machineries are put in place to
effect this change in policy? Also, a senior lecturer from
Mass Communication department, Dr. Tayo Poopola
lamented that the constant change of policies without
getting people's opinions has been the bane in the
education sector.




Dr Poopola said that Nigeria, who operate a democratic
rule, ought to set agenda for public discussion before
declaring a new policy. “ This is a democratic era and in
democracy, there is the Agenda Setting model.
Government should set the agenda for public discussion.




Let them get the views of members of the public. And
take proactive steps that will be in the interest of the
public,'' he said.


''The era of somebody arrogating wisdom to formulating
of policy that backfires is not good. This has been the
bane of Nigeria's education system. Before now, we had
the 6-3-3-4 system which was scrapped. They brought
9-5-4. So, where are we going? This kind of policy
changes in the education sector without due
consultation is not good for national development,” he
concluded.

Source: Vanguard

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Not all polytechnics will be converted to uni. The most outstanding ones like Yabatech and Kaduna Poly, amongst others, will benefit. However, others that are not converted shall remain polytechnics with highest capacity to issue OND only. More so,DE into varsities by OND graduates should be made easy.

Since I saw that thing... Na I'm I don dey wonder!!! What is a DICHOTOMY?