HND Certificate: An Embarrassment?

good advise man, so boy guess u hard this gentle man, just be good and fucos on your so call zoology course, even proud off, abeg go sleep, no even proud of science course sef!

my guy ,

i may intrest you to know that am from ibadan and i leave in ph . the zoo in ui has few monkies and some bird . the port harcourt  zoo is as good as non exietence so if u are targeting the two zoo , u are on your own.

so what we are saying here is not bsc or hnd or the courses . it is all about what u are able to deliver. after all the polytechnic lecturers are university graduate so if the polytechnic student that is there product is substandard , it is either they (the lecturers are substsndards or the are from substandard university ) cos u can only give what u have.

Nigeria is a country where people forget about their initial profession and jump into other professions just to make money. Some Doctors work in banks, chemists, quantity surveyors, engineers, physicists etc. work in banks as tellers. Tellering job can be done by even secondary school leavers. Is there anything professional about tellering? Why should people or professionals abandon their chosen careers to do the job of a teller?? Nigerians should wake up o.

i hate people discriminating HND DEGREE(I NAME IT BECOS I HAVE ONE), IT MAKE NO SENSE TO DISCRIMINATE A CERTIFICATE FROM A SCHOOL APPROVED TO AWARD THIS CERTIFICATE, IN TERMS OF JOB, hnd HOLDERS ARE BEING SORT FOR PLS DON'T ALLOW ANYBODY TO MAKE U LOOK INFERIOR IT IS WHAT U HAVE UPSTAIR THAT MAKES U A PERSON NOT your CERTIFICATE(DESTINY IS NOT BASE ON CERTIFICATE). THERE ARE ALSO PEOPLE WITH BSC WITHOUT JOB. ACTUALLY NIGERIA TODAY DEPEND ON THREE THINGS FOR EMPLOYMENT

GODFATHERISM
GODS FAVOUR
WHAT U CAN OFFER

SO KEEP QUIET!!

I HAVE AN HND I AM DOING FINE WITH IT.

Yes Poly and HND will die together.

Who is your GUY?, I do not have any Bachelors degree yet I am happy in life.

Retroactive effect will handle that.

Four Ghanaian Polytechnics To Run Degree Programme

Four Polytechnics in Ghana are ready to start the Bachelor of Technology programme this year. The polytechnics are Ho, Kumasi, Takoradi and Accra. They have already submitted their curriculum and syllabus to the National Council for Tertiary Education and are awaiting for approval from the National Accreditation Board.

The President of the Ghana National Union of Polytechnic Students (GNPS), Mr Kwodwo Adjei, who disclosed this during a press conference in Accra, called on the government to expedite action on the proposal to enable the programme to take off as planned.

He also appealed to the government to put the necessary infrastructure in place to enable polytechnic graduates to pursue Masters and Doctorate degrees in Technology in the country.

According to him, this would bring relief to about 48,000 students who had passed through the Higher National Diploma (HND) system and were in dire need of furthering their education, as well as some 21,000 who were currently in the system and hoping to enter it in the future. “If the nation is to make any meaningful strive in development, it must place emphasis on polytechnic education”, he stressed.

He stated that PNDC Law 321, which established the HND Programme, clearly provided that the polytechnics would get to a level where they could run degree programmes. He continued that it was over 10 years now and so it was believed that the polytechnics were ready to take up that challenge.

He noted that the situation where holders of HND who wished to further their education at the country’s universities were made to start from level 100 amounted to a waste of resources. He said when HND holders from Ghana travel to places like the United States of America and Britain, they were made to do a top-up of three to six month-programmes to qualify them to do Masters of Technology.

Source: Daily Graphic    http://www.graphicghana.info/article.asp?artid=9174

Polytechnic again? such was what Yetunde Karonwi told an HND holder who was asking somebody to obtain polytechnic form for survival in 1992.
Discrimination is equal to poly not HND, because till date some university do award Final Diploma  or HND etc without discriminations.

well, i don't agreed with the few that says HND certificate is an embarrasment. to start with am a Poly graduate and I don't see myself as inferior. I went into the institution to be the best in whatever am studying. I have no regrets but my cries goes to the Policy makers who have allowed this "issue" become a fish bone in the neck of those who attended Polytechnic. I don't really know if the bill have been passed now equating Bsc with HND. who says Polytechnic graduate are not capable?another issue is that we have embrace the American system of education and not giving relevance to technical education which the Colonial Bobo's established. last year there was a move by some student to the Policy makers to espedite action as regards this HND and Bsc dichotomy and the end of the story was that is in the pipiline. my fellow comrades, i believe God will surely see some of us through in our endeavours and grant us good success inspite of the negligence on the past of,

Bros no one Degree can put assunder o!! even Masters and PhD cannot put assunder. How far with the bill on HND discrimination?? Have you heard anything??

To me I believe HND holders can still make it . Discrimination or not, as long as they seriously labour for their certificate and they are able to defend same.Its all about individual belief.

How true is this?that a 17 years old student of university of lagos duped a british woman of sixty million naira

Hi,
I feel so sorry for HND holders in which am one. I am a contract staff with First Bank plc, I have been there for three years and just because I have 2-2 I could not be considered for staff.
I am given a task that requiered high level of competency and I cope very well. Its a nightmare for me but I have finished my post graduate and about to start NBA.
I a nutshell Nigeria ia a paper country and not your competence.

The beginning of problems for any HND holder is when self pity is allowed into someone's issue(that is what I would call salt upon injury), whatever you have be it HND or Bsc, what matters most is what you have made of yourself not waiting on some people that are not up to you to show you "selective" pity.
If world class organisations like Nestle foods, Schlumberger, First Bank Nigeria, Maersk Nigeria just to mention a few.My people you are all born great, pls don't allow some "Cabals" in politics play on our intelligience by making us argue endlessly on trivial issues like these, you and I were born with neither a Degree or HND, therefore it should never be a bone of contention, though government policy and the policy of some corporate bodies are not favourable but we must not wallow in self pity.
The system of education we operate 6-3-3-4 is an attempt by some people to make us waste so much time while we claim we are going to school.There is so much attached to this topic that we only need to have a very strong a solid belief in GOD and only GOD and then SELF believe.

My own advice is that people should stop patronizing polytechnics; rather go to a university and get a Degree. HND is as good if not better than some of the Degrees, but who cares about that?? since nobody cares why not go and get a Degree and save yourself some stress. HND is a stressful qualification in Nigeria.