HND Certificate: An Embarrassment?

I'm a HND holder with lower credit. I've done my research and the HND is considered a step below the BSc based on British and Scottish curricula from which we developed ours. In fact these days, British school insist that HND holders get a BSc top up (1 year programme) before proceeding for their Masters. However, you can give it to them their that the system works.

In Nigeria, there are several disparities and inequities, between polytechnics and universities, between states and the federally created institutions. The cause of all these rancour is that we do not place merit in the way we carry all policies in Nigeria. In America, some state universities rank among the top 200 in the world. In Africa, and especially in Nigeria, we like to arrogate to ourselves titles that we have not earned. If Nigeria was prosperous and was currently an employees' market, employers will not have the liver to make choices and will even go far to offer people of lesser qualification attractive career and education development programmes to keep them in the system. Unfortunately, states create polytechnics and universities too to appease their many indigenes who might not not ordinarily qualify to enter institutions of higher learning in the first place. How many states institutions can boast of any meaningful achievement with the exception of mainly business departments who have had to contend with ICAN, CIBN and CIS as levellers in determining educational superiority? In any case, what we discover is that more polytechnic graduates do better in professional exams and this might even interpret to mean that these might be victims of the quota system. In any case, it is regretful that in order to preserve the mediocre, lawmakers preferred to stay Ezekwesili's reforms. Even after 200 years, we will still have to reform if our education is to have any meaning, and if our country is going to be able to make use of education, literacy, technology, and human advances to better the lot of our country rather than using them as tools to phd ourselves.

God bless Nigeria

my thumb up for you, you said it all

Guys, u ar all right. BSC ---HND.
I ve my HND some yrs ago and because of the discrimination i'm made to work in one of the Banks using my N.D.
I  worked for 2 years but i had to quit the job and go back to school for my BSC.
So, fellow HND brother " if u cant bet them, pls. join them."

i have read this post  and i agree to a reasonable extent.
am an HND holder and work with a financial instition in Nigeria i had my promotion regularly and i know it is the grace of God that has put me here but i would want to say HND holders still have a Chance i have several friends who have HND too working in other financial institions ( even though they do not have additional qualifications yet)
so with God on your side, the sky is the limit.
i agree we HND holders need to improve on our qualifications so  as not to be kicked aside but the ultimate is hard work and force on your goal 
don't give up and God wont give up on you

good luck!!

it's still an embarrassment till today. a lot of pple with HND are really not happy with the way government and the society treat HND holders despite their skills.

against which government?? if you must know it is even government ministries that discriminate against HND graduates the most. Forget about government jo.

To me it's stressful going to polytechnic or holding a polytechnic certificate. People should forget about that old fashioned school called poly where you learn a lot; lets all go to university since that is what the government want. what a misplaced priority on the side of the nigerian government.

landos4rea, u r right.  think Poly peeps should endeavor to add value to them self by taking a lot of professional certifications and not just stop at the HND thing.

:-< God is in control peeps