My fellow men and women. There has been an issue which has even affected most African Nations like Ghana and the rest.
Polytechnic Education really needs consultation with specialists to let people know what the Polytechnics with the HND are all about. When people raise the point that The Universities are Institution for higher learning, but not a Polytechnic, I strongly disagree, because The Polytechnics in US offer programs to the PhD levels.
Now the HND is a Technical, and a Practical Qualification on its own merit, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary as being equivalent to the Degree but without honors. People in South Africa go through the HND and proceed to MTech. and DTech.( Masters and doctorate of Technology respectively). So the HND has its own route as The Degree which is also from BSc to MSc, and to PhD.
Now in The US College Education is accessed by the Total Credit hours covered, and not what is HND or BSc. I know people with BSc from Africa and after their College or University Credit evaluations have been asked to top-up between two(2) and one(1) years.
When I entered the US with my 3-Years of Polytechnic HND my total Credit hours were evaluated to be 91 equivalent to the US college Education above the Associate degree, and I was Registered to sit for the Medical Technologists Exam. I successfully passed the Exam very well with some of my BSc colleagues so where stand the deference between the HND and the BSc.
I was designated a Medical Technologist,(MT) as a title attached after my name as my BSc guys with the same starting point.
Africans are so certificate minded and thats the main reasons the we cannot correctly develop. With the Introduction to the so called big Degrees what has Africa been able to do?
Think about this and do not let people who are narrow minded bring you down, consider yourself as someone special. Thank you