dfrost:


Na people wey still dey waste time dey look for conversion.

Work your years of experience up, do relevant certifications, acquire business skills in addition to whatever skills you have and do an MBA and move up to the C level.

Unless you are looking at lecturing in the future, then get going with PGD, Masters and PhD.

Lovenorth:
If you want a degree go to the university, you can't do HND and expect a degree certificate. There is no shortcut in life . You can't plant maize and harvest rice

frankson1:




Certifications is just the way especially for those in the Marine, Oil and Gas industry.

I'm advising everyone to start getting CERTIFIED.

jaxin119:
One year crash programme is not sufficient enough to cover the extremely detailed course outline of the average university modules. Polytechnic course outline is very slim/limited and designed for middle level manpower.

That is how the GEJ's administration made a strategic mistake by introducing girls into the Nigerian Defence Academy resulting to reduced level of military training accross board. Today the result is the production of tiktok officers and excessive dead of officers and men in the North East.

ccrazy:
I was busy explaining dielectrics, conductivity, pigeons on the red phase 240 volts low tension cable, how electrocution kills and the difference between voltage and current to one technician, the flabbergasting surprise in his face made me proud studying as an engineer.

Make everybody dey their lane, I was lucky to go through a polytechnic before university, there is no way we are learning same thing, then there was no way I could compete with a unizik student in calculus, so clear distinctions should be made.

I can diagnose a problem theoretically without getting dirty, a technician will need to get dirty with guesses or with years of experience to get to my level.

imagine where I served as an apprentice for years with my theory. NA DIE!

jaxin119:
One year crash programme is not sufficient enough to cover the extremely detailed course outline of the average university modules. Polytechnic course outline is very slim/limited and designed for middle level manpower.

That is how the GEJ's administration made a strategic mistake by introducing girls into the Nigerian Defence Academy resulting to reduced level of military training accross board. Today the result is the production of tiktok officers and excessive dead of officers and men in the North East.

dfrost:


Na people wey still dey waste time dey look for conversion.

Work your years of experience up, do relevant certifications, acquire business skills in addition to whatever skills you have and do an MBA and move up to the C level.

Unless you are looking at lecturing in the future, then get going with PGD, Masters and PhD.

jaxin119:
One year crash programme is not sufficient enough to cover the extremely detailed course outline of the average university modules. Polytechnic course outline is very slim/limited and designed for middle level manpower.

That is how the GEJ's administration made a strategic mistake by introducing girls into the Nigerian Defence Academy resulting to reduced level of military training accross board. Today the result is the production of tiktok officers and excessive dead of officers and men in the North East.

Munamu:



I disagree with you sir. I was a polytechnic student for 6 years. The discrimination encouraged me to go back to a university,but to study law. From my first to the fifth year as an undergraduate, I appreciated the polytechnic system. Courses like commercial law, company law, torts, Nigerian legal systems were walk over for me, because I did them in ND2 (financial studies). Mind you I did some of the courses in part 5 law. The polytechnic syllabus is more expanded than that of the university. The only different is the availability of PHD holders in theuniversity system. And from research, tutors with masters impact knowledge more than the so called PHD holders. If I can do major law courses as an ND1 and ND2 student of financial studies and the same courses( company law) are being taught at 500 level of law,then polytechnic education is not what you sweep underground.
The problem is from the policy makes. England where the polytechnic education is copied from awards degree. I

chloride6:
Don’t go to a polytechnic and start looking for a way to level up..

That is just daft ..

If you don’t like poly don’t go!

Hemeenworth:
Only fools look down on Hnd

Though I'm a bsc holder

ehikwe22:
There shouldn't be any dichotomy between these two institutions - it doesn't make any sense at all. HND should be equivalent of Bsc.

IamANigerianMan:

Mr. Bsc tell me one thing you have contributed to the society aside been a nuisance.. ?

OlujobaSamuel:
They don turn am to politics, the best thing is to do like Lagos State, turn all polytechnics to universities, make NBTE redundant, scrap it, rebrand NUC.
I obviously knew it would result to this, that's why I was against NBTE decision when it was announced a while ago.
For those claiming admission requirements, it's the same requirements, I have the two, the curriculum is also the same, I didn't learn anything different, except for ego that I'm now having so so qualification.

Riversstate:
You do HND for four years, one year compulsory internship and then go for service and you say BSC big pass??

On what ground??

Kruzxx:




What you did in polytechnic was it ND or HND,. I have a Hnd in Accounting,I have friends that did bsc in accounting it's practically the same courses both the theories and calculations. ICAN the accounting professional body requirement is Hnd or bsc same with almost all if not all professional bodies. At a time UK closed all poly and converted to university,some uk university do direct mba for hnd holders, Nigeria has been left behind with bsc hnd brohala

ehikwe22:
There shouldn't be any dichotomy between these two institutions - it doesn't make any sense at all. HND should be equivalent of Bsc.

stuffs2002:


Na lie joo. The curriculum is not the same and the approach to education are not the same

BigBlackPreek:
I'm a Bsc holder from University of Ibadan, though I do not underrate HND holders because both are of the same curriculum and same teachings only that universities involve a bit of more research work

EleventhWeirdo:


ICAN is a professional institute. Let's not bring it into the discussion as the Bsc/hnd issue is about academic differentials. A B.sc accounting borrows courses and is more extensive in scope than an hnd accounting. A Bsc accounting would take mandatory courses in law, economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, computer science, public administration/pol science, management, and do on. The aim is to develop a complete professional proficient in fields that are, outside of but relate to, financial management as a whole. In Poly, did you do all of these? I feel Poly focuses on training technicians. Even the sophistication of the learning content and instruction varies across the two

OlujobaSamuel:

Do you have both??
My discipline is Social Sciences.
Admission requirements is 5credits for both.
I can't see any difference in the two, in fact, the result of the latter is better than the former

sexiestharam:

Hope you are aware that you need to have a PGD to qualify for an MBA with an HND qualification?

stuffs2002:



Na lie...

I was studying engineering in both polytechnic and university at the same time. There approaches are not the same and the curriculum are not the same

OlujobaSamuel:

You were running the two together
Hope no be mushroom sch, as PT or FT student, I schooled in an institution you can't even try it, you have to drop one irrespective of how sound you are. The rigours isn't something you can cope with