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BREAKING - FG Scraps Hnds , Merges Polytechnics With Universities by chicute20: 10:45am On Jul 31, 2016 |
Reports reaching us has it that the Federal Executive
Council (FEC) has approved a comprehensive reform of
Nigeria's tertiary education system, scrapping the
award of the Higher National Diploma (HND) by the
nation's polytechnics.
In effect, the award of the HND will be limited to only
the students currently admitted for the programmes.
Also, all the programmes currently being run by the
polytechnics, which are not technology-based, and
which are about 70 per cent, will be scrapped. Under
the new rule, the polytechnics will now become
campuses of the proximate universities with the Vice
Chancellors of those universities appointing provosts for
the polytechnics, subject to the ratification of the
Universities Councils.
The polytechnics will now be limited to award of the
National Diploma (ND) while those desirous of further
education will be awarded the Bachelor of Technology
(B. Tech) by the proximate university. To kick-start the
new policy, the nation's two most prominent
polytechnics - Yaba College of Technology and Kaduna
Polytechnic - will henceforth be known as City
University of Technology, Yaba and City University of
Technology, Kaduna. And to give legal teeth to these
approvals, the FEC approved the submission of two
Executive bills to the National Assembly for enactment
into law. With education being on the concurrent list,
the states may wish to consolidate their tertiary
institutions. But if they do not wish to follow the
federal example, their programmes will continue to be
regulated by the relevant agencies of the Federal
Ministry of Education.
The first bill will concretise the setting up of the two
city universities while the second will approve the
preparation and consolidation of all federal
polytechnics and colleges of education as campuses of
proximate universities. The Ministry of Justice will do
the preparation and submission of the two bills to the
National Assembly. Minister of Education, Mall. Adamu,
told journalists after the weekly meeting of the council
that under the reform measures, her ministry would,
however, continue to licence private polytechnics and
colleges of education for the award of qualification at
ND and National Certificate in Education (NCE) levels.
She said: "There will be no more award of HND.
After we have exhausted the current students under
the programme, there will be no more award of HND.
This means that there will be no fresh admission for
HND programmes. And in addition, any programme
that is not technical will be out of the polytechnics.
About 70 per cent of polytechnic graduates are in the
non-technical courses. It is going to be a rigorous
implementation programme." A ministerial committee
to ensure the smooth implementation of all that is
required for the take-off of the reform initiatives is to
begin work immediately. Mall. Adamu said: "The HND
certificate will remain a legal tender in Nigeria and
holders of such certificate will continue to be
recognised as the equivalent of first degree holders
without discriminatory remunerations and limit to
progression in the work place. The NCE certificate will
be retained as the minimum teaching qualification at
the basic level of education. Any higher qualifications
by these private or state-owned polytechnics will be
only affiliation with a university.
So, HND is no longer in existence, but existing HND
will be respected and considered legal tender." The
council also approved the Federal Government's formal
take-over of the Waziri Umaru Polytechnic, Birnin
Kebbi, which will be the College of Technology campus
of the Othman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, as well as
the Hussein Adamu Polytechnic, Kazaure, Bauchi,
which will be a College of Technology of the proximate
university in the state. Also, the Alvan Ikoku College of
Education, Owerri, Imo State, has been taken over as a
campus of the Federal University of Technology,
Owerri.
A state that had never had any federal institution, like
Bayelsa, is to have a College of Technology as a campus
of the College of Technology of the University of Port
Harcourt. |
Re: BREAKING - FG Scraps Hnds , Merges Polytechnics With Universities by AroOkigbo(m): 10:59am On Jul 31, 2016 |
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