Its really annoying and disheartening how some unemployed university graduates look down on their polytechnic conterparts and respond to the issue of HND/BSC dichotomy. There is a thread in the front page which gave account of how ASUP president pleaded with Federal government to upgrade Nigerian polytechnics so that they will be awarding degrees. But some comments there are really discouraging which i believed were posted by university students,some are saying'its never going to happen',' HND and Bsc are not the same so they should not be equalised' of course we know you people and the Nigerian government see it as inferior degree,thats on paper, but its not, is only the name that needs to be changed, here is why:

Am student in kaduna polytechnic and i know there are ABU students that are coming for practical work in our institution almost every quarter of the year because they dont have the instruments in their school. There was a university that borrowed a chartered Accountant from our school to get their accounting course approved.If you talk of HND graduates are paid lower, go to refinery, chemical engineers from polytechnics are being paid more than the administrative staffs of the same level with university degrees. I participated in the last election activities and my partner has a university degree but i had to be spelling words like 'FOUR' and 'CONSTITUENCY' for him, am not close to perfect in english language.

So you having university degree doesn't mean that you will be more successful than HND holder in real life, its a matter of who has longer leg and destiny. And pls stop thinking that if polytechnics are upgraded to be awarding degrees your chances of being employed will reduce.

Thank you for reading.
God bless Nigeria.