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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has
described as demoralising, the erstwhile dichotomy
between HND and B.Sc in the country.


Its National President, Comrade Usman Dutse, a lecturer
in the Department of General Studies, Federal
Polytechnic, Bauchi, made this known in an interview on
Wednesday.


“At the last meeting of the council on establishment a
memo was presented by the minister of education
demanding the removal of the dichotomy placed on
HND and B.Sc graduates.


“The minister said the reason dichotomy was placed ab
initio, has now been overtaken by events. “And now if
you look at the environment and the situation that we
have in the country at the moment, you would see that
the abolition of the dichotomy is long overdue.


“One of the major reasons the meeting and other
stakeholders gave for the abolition of the dichotomy is
the hitherto different entry requirements into both the
university and polytechnic. “Now the requirements have
been harmonised. There was also the issue of
curriculum, which was not wide.


“The issue of dichotomy was demoralizing to
polytechnic graduates. “We have a lot of HND graduates
in the civil service and they have contributed a lot, but
that dichotomy is killing their morale because they feel
that their qualification is not being appreciated.


“Now it has been discovered that performance at work
is not based on the certificate that people have or
where you come from, but on the skills and the ability
you have. “Experience has shown that there are a lot of
HND holders that perform better than some degree
holders.’’


Dutse noted that the dichotomy had created a flawed
mindset among parents and employers that university
degrees were more prestigious than higher national
diplomas.


“The dichotomy even made people to give preference to
university education at the expense of polytechnic
education because if you look at the patters of
application for admission to tertiary institutions every
year, you will see that applicants keep applying more to
the universities. “In the last admission, 1.6 million
applicants applied to the universities, but only 38,000
applied to the polytechnics, while only 29,000 applied to
collages of education.


“And the major reason for all that was this dichotomy
thing. “Out of the 1.6 million people that applied to the
universities, only 300,000 were admitted.


“It means that 1.3 million applicants would not be
offered admission. “So, dichotomy has denied people
polytechnic education, but with the abolition of that
dichotomy now, the tide will change a little especially
with the Federal Government now talking about
diversifying the economy.


“I believe that the diversification process will lay a lot of
emphasis on technical and vocational education and
that is where polytechnic education is strongest.’’
Source: Vanguard

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I do agree, but the percentage is very low, compared to the ones that can't even be half as good. Not hating, just an observation. The dichotomy isn't going anywhere anytime soon, that's what we have to deal with. Any polytechnic student who is brilliant enough, should just do D.E and cross to the uni.

deeplow:
I do agree, but the percentage is very low, compared to the ones that can't even be half as good. Not hating, just an observation. The dichotomy isn't going anywhere anytime soon, that's what we have to deal with. Any polytechnic student who is brilliant enough, should just do D.E and cross to the uni.

exactly