President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Comrade Yusuf Dutse, has raised the alarm that polytechnic education in Nigeria is endangered.
He attributed this crisis to neglect, underfunding and conflicting policies.
Dutse sounded the alarm, on Tuesday, while delivering his welcome address at the 14th National Delegates Conference of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), hosted by the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi.
The ASUP President said that the union was deeply concern that polytechnic education in the country is riddled with obsolete instruments of operation, decay infrastructure, and poor conditions of service.
He stressed that the lingering issues of the non-passage of the Polytechnic Act, NEEDS Assessments, appointment of rectors, among several issues, were hampering growth of polytechnic education and undermining the growth of technology education in Nigeria.
“The neglect of the sector has also been responsible for the mass exodus from the system of the most experienced and well-trained intellectuals in the areas of dire need and for the low enrolment of students into polytechnics,” he explained.

Continue reading here:
http://www.educribe.com.ng/2017/12/why-polytechnic-education-in-nigeria-is.html

He is very much correct. The dichotomy between polythecnic and university educational system cannot be over-emphasised.