you can buy their form it is ok.

Hi, Landers, i have great difficulty in feeling the online first page even after i ve gotten the pics size, ans based on this i cannot go further.

can any one with the Technical Know how Assist me? cos i guess my server could not go with the requirement so i need help. my passport phot is attached to this mail and the info you will need to assist are as follows

Names: EGBADON JEFFERY EMMANUEL.
Date of Birth: 1978/12/24
Sex: Male.

Just the first page and i will proced from there. I will be glad if anyone could give me a helping hand so i can continue.

Many thanks.

Yes what i great fight and at last it has come to pass. all who have been reading my articles will agree with me that it was never easy at the begining infact in this forum alone those who are in support on the scrapt will know what i was saying. You can not beat the Government just encourage them, and that is how it has come to be thank God for everything.
My Message to all employers of labour is this: Disriminate and face the consequencies, play foul and face loses in business, employ all and get more productivity.
Hnd Holder, Ishmeal and emmigrant0 good job to all of us.

Funny enough the same gov that is struggling to scrap the hard earned HND have their Dump head children schooling over seas. We thank God at the End of everything he has the finall say. May God continue to help all HND holders to excel and prove their worth.
Weather the programme is scrap or not, Guys go out there and prove yourselves.
Jeffery

univy and uni now shear the same platforms and no mere discriminations from either side. the next thing we want to ask the government is this " the present statement of result Bearing the former names polytechnics will they be revalidated of should the holders of such continue to use it that way?" the Government need to clarify this aspect because though others will graduate holding Btech but what will happen to those with the former title?
Many thanks.

This will tell feela HND holders how far the government had gone to either improve or distroy our education system.
But personally i have begin to reason with the government to some extent since discrimination is the order of the day.

But those with the already HND result and certificate will have to go to their former school for revalidation or a change of card and names.
Cheers friends.


YabaTech students jittery - Over admission requirements
By Kehinde Adio


Entrance of the college.No doubt, the thinking of some students and principal officials of the Yaba College of Technology has changed since the Federal Government announced the conversion of the institution to a city university late last year. Though the college, which happens to be the oldest higher institution in the country, has not taken off as a full-fledged university, the students on the campus have begun to feel the impact of its new status. However, while there is a gradual transformation and a change of hearts by the current students, those who had graduated with National Diploma are afraid of being sidetracked by the new requirements of the college, which they said may not favour them. As a matter of fact, they want to know if the new institution’s status will favour them.


According to a student of School of Science who simply identified herself as Ugochi, many students are beginning to worry about the institution’s new status. She told Education Tribune that the authorties of the institution have not officially addressed the students about the conversion and how it would affect their academic status. “We love the new status of the institution but we are afraid if it is not going to have any negative effect on us,” she said. Ugochi is presently in ND II and prefers to proceed for a degree programme in the college rather than to embark on a year industrial attachment. She said, “I have spent two years in the college for my ND. Normally, I’m supposed to proceed on a year industrial attachment but I would have loved to continue and graduate as a degree holder if the college permits me.”


Mr. Wale Oyeola is a good example of one of the ND graduates. He studied General Arts. Though he is currently on a year industrial attachment, he told our correspondent that he prefers to go back to the college for degree programme rather than the HND. As he puts it, “ All my colleagues want to come back for degree programmes but not HND.” However, he did not hide his feelings about the modalities that the college might want to use to admit its former students for the degree programme. He said, “ If the college will still go ahead to admit us for the degree programme with the ND certificate, almost all of us will return but if otherwise, some may cross to some other universities. We want to come back but we don’t know if there will be new requirements for admission, especially for those of us who passed through the institution for our ND programme.”


Commenting on the new status and the requirements for admission into the institution, the Public Relations Officer of the college, Mr. Kunle Adams, stated that the college had already set a high standard and it would not go below it but rather it will raise to it requirements. He said that the institution had always based its admission on merit, adding that the former and present crops of students were solely admitted on merit. Though he refused to comment on the probability of new admission requirements, Adams said that the college’s had inaugurated a committee to work them out. “I wouldn’t want to comment either there will be a change of admission requirement or not but there is a committee set up by the college to augment the work of the presidential committee. However, I cannot divulge the working of the committee to you,” he said.


However, there is the need for the students to be panic. The institution has experienced a drastic transformation since its establishment in 1947. It was established as the Yaba Technical Institute to provide middle level manpower to augment the working of the British personnel. In its metamorphosis, the admission requirements also changed. Because it was meant to train apprentices then, there was less academic exercise and the admission requirements were not based on academic qualifications. The institute had been presenting students for City and Guilds Examinations in London in building construction, electrical and mechanical engineering with satisfactory results and had been writing college diploma examinations until 1963 when it became a college of technology.


The change was in anticipation of the dynamic role it played in the production of technical manpower for the economic and social development of Nigeria. Subsequently, the transformation brought about changes in admission requirements. Now, the college is one of the two polytechnics being converted to city universities in Nigeria. Undoubtedly, the university system is created basically for research and academic activities while polytechnics education teaches practical skills. While university’s minimum admission requirements is five credits including English Language and Mathematics, polytechnics’ admit candidates with four credits perhaps because of its less academic exercise.


With this in mind, most students are expressing fear that the admission requirement may change and that there may be no room to absorb those who have four credits. However, Adams argued that the college had adequate facilities that could enable it to compete favourably within university system. He also said that the quality of manpower in the college could compete with that universities. As he put it, “ It is only the nomenclature that will change, we have the structures and manpower. There may also be the need to include some courses in the college but it is not going to change its technological character. We will continue with the 70 per cent technology and 30 per cent management courses.”


The college, due to its new status, may take a new form soon. Series of renovations are going on at the college at present. The college has just built a new hostel located about 50 metres to its main gate. Currently, it has six halls of residents while the sports centre is being rehabilitated. The proposed city university has about 12 schools, which may increase when it finally take off.

Hi fellow Nairadanders, i was invited through an sms for beachgate test @ ikeja,
Does anyone knows about them and what they do? i can even remember when i applied for the job pls i need help.
emmigrant01@yahoo.co.uk

Yes bobocj it came out in Guardian News paper and yesterdays punch but go to google and type British council then go to careers and you will see the same format of application. good luck.

Pls if you have to go for a BSC make sure you read ELectrical in this case nothing will be new to you again and you can use this means to better your grade. if you change your course of study is like statrting all over again which will be too bad for you.
cheers

hi guys this came up today.




VACANCIES:

We are presently expanding our examinations team in Lagos and therefore seek to employ talented individuals for the following posts:

EXAMINATIONS PRODUCT MANAGER (IELTS & EDUCATIONAL EXAMS), GRADE G
EXAMINATIONS SERVICES OFFICER (IELTS), GRADE H
EXAMINATIONS SERVICES OFFICER (PROFESSIONAL EXAMS), GRADE H
EXAMINATIONS FINANCE OFFICER, GRADE H
Job Descriptions and specifications for the jobs are available below and application is by email only. Deadline for applications is February 9, 2007.Please note that applications hand delivered will not be accepted at British Council offices or by post.

You must read the Job Description/Person Specification documents attached below before you apply for this job. This contains vital information on how to apply, our selection procedure, and the application deadline, as well as job-specific information.

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXAMINATIONS PRODUCT MANAGER
EXAMINATIONS SERVICES OFFICER (IELTS)
EXAMINATIONS SERVICES OFFICER (PROFESSIONAL EXAMS)
EXAMINATIONS FINANCE OFFICER
WHO WE ARE
The British Council connects people worldwide with learning opportunities and creative ideas from the UK and builds lasting relationships between the UK and other countries.

HOW TO APPLY
Please apply using the materials below. Please read all instructions carefully before you complete the application form. We are unable to process applications that do not conform with the required format, and we will not accept curricula vitae or handwritten applications.Deadline for applications is February 9, 2007.

All appilcation to be sent to application.lagos@ng.britishcouncil.org

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OUR RECRUITMENT POLICY
The British Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and is keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within the organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We also offer application packs in the following formats: large print, Braille, computer disk or audio tape.

We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.

We are the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are registered in England as a charity.

i just called someone i knew in LNG and he confirmed to me that the mail is a scam so plz if you got such mail do not reply except if you want to fall a victim just like EBT NIG.

LNG is in plot 1684 sanusi fafunwa street VI

Not

Plot 23 Engineering close plz confirm.

Employers can only make nonsense of people only if they are given such opportunities.
But with time they are absolutely going to beg.

i recieve a questionniare asking some questions and it was said it is confidential, has anyone been linked with such mail?

well i cant say that their test format is diffrent from that you already know from other bank and coporate organization test per say.
just get your self prepared they don't have a specific test format.

my concern is if they have a better job security because getting a job is one thing and job security is the most important of all.

Mos nice meeting on nairaland. This site is just the solution to all problems as regards to info. Take care.

plz i want to know the venue, time and date and if there is any other info so i and every other nairalanders can participate

when will you learn is it @ 40?
read my article about esther break though. May EFCC pay them a visit this year through Christ our lord Amen.

The National Board for Technical Education was established by Act 9 of January 1977

READ THIS AND ASK GOV WHY THE CHANGES.

The functions of the Board as contained in its enabling Act are as follows:


to advise the Federal Government on, and co-ordinate all aspects of technical and vocational education falling outside the universities and to make recommendations on the national policy necessary for the training of technicians, craftsmen, and other middle-level and skilled manpower;

to determine, after consultation with the National Manpower Board, the Industrial Training Fund and such other bodies as it considers appropriate, the skilled and middle-level manpower needs of the country in the industrial, commercial and other relevant fields for the purpose of planning training facilities and in particular to prepare periodic master-plans for the balances and co-ordinated development of polytechnics and such plans shall include;
i. the general programmes to be pursued by polytechnics in order to maximize the use of available facilities and avoid unnecessary duplication while ensuring that they are adequate to the manpower needs of the country;

ii. recommendations for the establishment and location of new polytechnics as and when considered necessary.


to inquire into and advise the Federal Government on the financial needs, both recurrent and capital, of polytechnics and other technical institutions to enable then meet the objectives of producing the trained manpower needs of the country;

to receive block grants from the Federal Government and allocate them to polytechnics in accordance with such formula as may be laid down by the Federal Executive Council;

to act as the agency for channeling all external aid to polytechnics in Nigeria;
to advise on, and take steps to harmonize entry requirements and duration of courses at technical institutions;

to lay down standards of skill to be attained and to continually review such standards as necessitated by technological and national needs;

to review methods of assessment of students and trainees and to develop a scheme of national certification for technicians, craftsmen, and other skilled personnel in collaboration with ministries and organization having technical training programmes;

to undertake periodic review of the terms and conditions of service of personnel in polytechnics and to make recommendations thereon to the Federal Government;

to collate, analyze and publish information relating to technical and vocational education;

to consider and matter pertaining to technical or technological education as may be referred to it from time to time by the Minister;

to carry out such other activities as are conducive to the discharge of its functions.

In addition to the above, paragraphs 8(1) and 8(2) of Decree 16, 1985 (now Act) Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions) states as follows:


The responsibility for the establishment of minimum standards in Polytechnics, Technical Colleges and other technical institutions in the Federation shall be vested in the Minister after consultation with the National Board for Technical Education and thereafter that Board shall have responsibility for the maintenance of such standards.

The Board shall have power to accredit programmes of all institutions mentioned in subsection (1) above for the purpose of award of national certificates and diplomas and other similar awards, and for entry into national and zonal examinations in respect of such institutions.







The Board has made significant progress in the performance of its functions since its inception in 1977. Some of these achievements are as follows:

Establishment of Credible Quality Assurance Mechanism
The Board has established a credible quality assurance mechanism in the Polytechnics and Monotechnics for National Diploma (ND), Higher National Diploma (HND) and Post Higher National Diploma (PHND) and in the Technical Colleges for NTC, NBC, ANTC and ANBC programmes.

Development of Curricula

Over 187 Curricula have been developed by the Board in various fields at various levels ranging from Engineering to Catering and Hotel Management for the past 3 years. 197 programmes was approved after resource inspection for ND, HND and Post-HND.

Also out of 506 programmes visited for accreditation/re-accreditation, 284 programmes passed accreditation/reaccreditation for ND, HND and Post-HND while 114 programmes were accredited out of 405 programmes visited in Technical Colleges.

Advisory Visit for Establishment of Institutions

Within the past three years, over 42 advisory visits were made to Polytechnics, Colleges of Agriculture, Colleges of Health Technology, and technical Colleges nation-wide.

Establishment of Private Technical Institutions

Seven private Polytechnics/Monotechnics were established from year 2000 to 2002. This has increased the total number of Polytechnics in Nigeria to 51; Federal 17, State 27 and Private 7.

Training of Technical and Vocational Educational (TVE) Staff

Under the UNESCO-NIGERIA TVE Project, the Board trained over 1000 staff on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This training programme is still on-going in all the UNESCO-NIGERIA TVE Project signated centres all over Nigeria.

Office and Staff Accommodation

The Board has completed an ultra-modern secretariat complex at Plot 5B Bida Road, Kaduna. It has also built eight duplex houses, 60 bungalows at Narayi Housing Estate, 8No. one-storey building each made up of 2No. 3 bedroom flats, at Sardauna Crescent, and 3No. 4 bedroom bungalows at Shehu Crescent, Unguwar Rimi for Senior Staff accommodation.

Monitoring of Capital Projects

The twin policy of project-specific funding and quarterly monitoring of capital projects assisted to stem the incidence of abandoned projects on our Polytechnic. The Board undertook monitoring visits to the 17 Federal Polytechnics to monitor capital projects for which grants were released in 2001 financial year.

Academic Plans

These have been produced for each Federal Polytechnic and the new Federal Technical Colleges.

Master Plans

At the macro level, the Board has produced a document titled “The Review and Format of Technical Education in Nigeria” (unpublished) which gives broad guidelines for the development of the various sectors of the technical education system. At the micro level, the Board has laid down guidelines for evolving master plans for Federal Polytechnics. It has assisted new Federal Polytechnics in the production of their master plans and older institutions, updates of their master plans. The Board advises State Polytechnics on relevant guidelines to assist in developing new master plans or for the update of existing master plans.

Physical Development Of Polytechnics And Technical Colleges

The Board has produced space standards for use in the physical planning and development of polytechnic and technical college facilities. These standards are being used in the physical development of Federal Polytechnics and Technical Colleges; and may be useful to state-owned Polytechnics and Technical Colleges that are developing new facilities or undertaking new construction work to update existing facilities in order to make them more responsive to the educational programmes being offered by the institutions.

The Board has evolved a system of capital project monitoring in the Polytechnic System. A document titled “Project Management Handbook” (unpublished) has been produced for the purpose.

List of Equipment

Lists of academic facilities and workshop and laboratory equipment for teaching most courses in the Polytechnics leading to the award of the ND and HND are also available from the Board’s Secretariat.

Research and Technology Adaptation

One of the primary functions of the Polytechnics is to be fully engaged in research and development activities. The Board has done much in this area. Some funds are set aside for research and technology development in the Polytechnics.

HND holder,
i must confess that you are very impressive and i so much like what you guys are doing (ishmeal and you). Lets continue to say and bear our minds on this topic but one thing i know for sure is, "what will be ,will definitely be".
No one can win the gov in their court so with prayers we will surely over come this issue.
My only advice is this "What is good for the guise is good for the gizzard"
the gov should do what will please the country and itself. we are the minority both we will excel.
Cheers

Hi fellow landers from uni lag, please i will appreciate it if someone can help me with the following info.

1. i need the list of engineering programs ran in the school of post graduate studies of unilag (both PGD and MASTERS Degree)
2. i will also want to know how much it cost to run the above programs.

May God bless you guys and happy new year in advance.
just got into Lagos and don't know how to get to the campus and i discover this site is the best and fastest way to get this info.
cheers

Good jobs guys, we all need each other both poly and uni to become achievers. The head cannot stand on its own it needs the body as well.

Remember, Good thinking, good product.

harmonizing the two or three institutions will help the country a great deal but bearing one name will distroy the system to a large extent.
Cheers guys.

Ishmeal you have spoken well and Mr.D well what i will say is this "stop beating around the bush" you must learn to walk b4 you walk OK?
HND, B/TECH B/ENG are 5yrs programs BSC is just 4yrs the Federal Gov through the president have made them equal if you don't know this equation started in the year 1975 when he was a military Head of State, and today it has been actualized.

We just have to respect each other weather HND or B whatever, prove yourself in the field if you know you merited what you have. I have said this before that i am a DON in my place of work in respective of what i have and i am really doing great and you cant speak Engineering if i am not Around. I am fully registered with coren and i have started another with NSC so prove yourself and allow the labour market to beg you.

I am tired of this argument what has the government said after their address on this issue is what we should be talking about.
Cheers.
Jeffery

hahahahahahahahahahahahahah when i look at the pix i cannot help but laugh.
I was there and i got injured on my thumb so i got angry and left at exactly 10.15am later i heard the whole episode and today i have seen and printed the pix thanks for making see this.

ishmeal, lover bowy, i want to Say here that we ve really contributed alot to this argument and you will quit angry with me that not many Nairalanders are contributing to this because the4y are tired of it. Lets talk about the way forward, how do we encourage the government to do what is right for us? this are but a few of what we should be looking on to.
Weather you like it or not the Gov has made their decisions and most have concluded behind close door what they then tend to do is bring it out to see our reaction, of course if their is no demonstration, they will now bring it out and said that it was agreed the very moment. But we have grown to a limit that we need not demonstrate but pray that an opposition should come in the form of confusion between they the decision makers so as they will do what is good for Nigerian education system.

Like i said before Empowering the poly is the best decision to the whole argument and if they feel merging will solve the problem then you and i are to pray it work for them and also we too should benefit, as i am writing this text i called a lecturer in my former school and he said the plans is in a top gear toward its realization. Lets pray that something good comes out. Cheers

aceseducation will grow weather GOV send their children or not, if you are capable of disallowing your children or younger ones the acess to poly pls do but for a good technological innovation, academic excellence, moral pals etc the poly remains the best and if you really want to speak Engineering in Nigeria pls be on the first flight to the poly. it does not really mean that those in the poly have no good SSCE i am a proof of the fact that alot of us have good SSCE but chose to go to the poly to be practically oriented.
How long do you want to work under someone before you become an MD of your own?
We in the poly setting have been trained to be on our own but because of the hard economy we have this days we just have to work for some time and then go get something for ourselves.
But the reverse is the case with my fellow UNI grad with due respect check NBTE/NABTEC regulation compire it with our fellow UNI grad curriculum and see what you are in the society that you don't know.
Guys this in not a time to regret your HND but i time to implement it in your place of work or your lives and see what you can make. PGD is for sure since we intend to futher but if any good poly runs any masters program in engineering then i will be the first to be there.
emmigrant01@yahoo.co.uk.
Jeffery

whoever says the prof is yarning nonsense is making a great mistake. Have you been involved in any research at all? if yes read this article again. i want us to be more diplomatic in the way we make our presentations for a great hight can only be achieved by hard work and industry.
Jeffery

What are we talking about here? If poly goes what will happen to the economy technologically? who will be there to develop the country? do you think development has Any thing to do under the Air conditioner, wearing suits and using biros to siphone cash?
Please we need innovative people that are technologically inclind and the only place you can get that is in the polytechnics.
Lets reason alike poly has come to stay since its existence and will always remain. Those who say poly should go i guess your decisions stands in the fact that you are at a zero level technologically.
Have a nice day.

Hi fellas, merry Christmass ton you all and a prosperous New year in Advance. Please i need help from you guys.

I need to know all the types of Engineering courses Ran in Uni lag and the options as well. please any uni lag student with this info should help me.

My Area of interest is in the School of post graduate studies and what i want to know about this area is the Engineering PGD and MASTERS programs.

I will be very Glad if any body Could be of help to me.

Jeffery( emmigrant01@yahoo.co.uk)

ishmeal you are a brothwer in the profession i see you reply my mail whenever i send one can we know each other the more? you can reach me here emmigrant01@yahoo.co.uk or 08035695558 i will pleased to know you .

And for all that cares read this:

Lassa criticises Education Ministry's reform agenda
From Isa Addulsalami, Jos
FORMER Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Prof. Peter Lassa has said that the planned market economic policy of education for the country could not work because "it has never succeeded anywhere."

Lassa said that he was aware that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been pushing for world wide reform in education which focused on a market-based school system.

Lassa, who is a retired professor of Mathematics having spent 46 years in teaching, said that the proposed merger of polytechnics and colleges of education with the university system would not work, because each had a specific purpose to fulfill in society. He addressed a news conference in Jos recently.

According to him, polytechnics and colleges of education were two different institutions and were different from the university system. He insisted that each one had a specific objective and purpose and that polytechnic education was geared towards providing middle level manpower.

"This policy does not fit into our education system which is based on social services. This market-based policy has some political undertone and is inconsistent with the Federal Government policy on the Universal Basic Education (UBE).

"This market-based policy came after the World War II in Europe and North America as a neo-liberal policy, emphasising the deregulation of the economy, trade liberalisation and the dismantling of the public sector (such as education, health, social welfare). The neo-liberalism emphasises the privatisation of public provision of goods and services. The main aim of neo-liberalism is to put into question all collective structures capable of obstructing the logic of the pure market," he said.

According to him, "This is the policy that the new Ministry of Education wants to implement. This policy of market economy cannot work in our system of education, and it has not succeeded anywhere we know of. It has been disclosed that government discourse since 2001 had led to substantive shift in school policy toward economic responsiveness which creates a business agenda in education.

"From the look of things, Obasanjo's regime is putting education in the vanguard of social and political change. The government position is based on its commitment to United Nations membership to lay the foundation upon which they think an education superstructure could be built."

Lassa urged government not to tread the path of the market economy policy for the country's educational system "because this policy has never worked and cannot work for Nigeria in the present economic development. The present educational policy and Nigerian constitution which place education under concurrent legislative list requires the attention of all the tiers of government in this country."


and this as well

Poly, Varsity Merger Will Improve Education – IMSU VC
By Amby Uneze in Owerri, 12.05.2006

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You have been the Vice Chancellor for the past one year, what is your relationship with the students like and what challenges have you faced?
I am very pleased to have the responsibility of being the Vice Chancellor of this institution, the Imo State University. I considered my appointment a learning process and I stand to put the experiences I have gathered over the years to bear on the present job. I would say that the experience has been a very rewarding one.
hile I was a dean in Faculty of Business Administration, I had a kind of relationship with the students body. A lot of them, including the President and executives of the Students Union body were quite close to me. They came for one advice of the other. I didn’t know how it happened, but this relationship with them eventually turned in my favour when I was more or less campaigning for this position, to the extent that a lot of the students expressed some kind of solidarity around me, to ensure that I emerged as Vice Chancellor. So since I became Vice Chancellor, there has been that kind of instant cordial relationship.
Most universities complain of a lack of infrastructural facilities, while there has been a steady increase in the number of students admitted each year, how is your university addressing this problem?
This is the main problem in the education industry in the country. It is real. You have a situation where a class meant for 50 or 60 students has close to 200 to 300 students. But the founding fathers of this university wanted to provide a training facility for the teaming population of Imo youths. So there is a kind of conflict there. We have to be able, at least, to meet the objective of the founding fathers.
Unfortunately, the recent admission quota granted by Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), actually l
took into consideration the dearth of facilities. We used to admit about 6, 000 students every year, but we have stepped down. The Imo State Government was gracious enough to extend to us the former Okigwe Road secretariat, so this will ease off the existing congestion.
These days, employers of labour have drawn a line between the university degree and the polytechnic’s Higher National Diploma (HND), preferring the former. How do you react to this?
This has been a recurring decimal in the Nigerian education system. If you recall by the year 1983 – 84, following the Cookey Commission report, there was a distinction that was created between the salaries of he various tertiary institutions. I think these emanated from the provisions of the policy of education in the country, because within the polity, there was a need to create various categories of manpower in the system; middle level manpower, high level manpower and the rest of them.
But of course, you must understand that the society is changing. I recall when the current President was a military Head of State, he tried to harmonize the graduates of the polytechnic with those of universities, but it did not work. The employers themselves sometime prefer some polytechnic graduates to university graduates in some professions. Even in the university here, there is an institutional organ called the congregation or the convocation. For you to be a member of the congregation, you should be a graduate and by the interpretation of the graduate, you have to be a degree holder. Because of that in the appointment of, say the Bursar, some accountants with HND are very good, some even become chartered accountants before university graduates, but you can not be a Bursar of the university with just HND, because if you do, you are no more qualified to be a member of the congregation. So such things are there.
Well the distinction can still be removed. This situation existed sometime in Britain. They looked at the curriculum of various institutions, modified them, up-graded the polytechnics to university status, to the extent that the polytechnics in Britain now offer B-tech, M-tech to Ph.D., so that in case of the lecturers, if you find yourself in the polytechnic, you can still remain there and become a professor. So it was done in such a way that the institutions could serve their primary role in the society, the role of producing technological manpower.
The danger in our system is that sometimes, we get carried away by credentials. When you set up a University of Technology, before you know it, the university will begin to offer degrees in medicine, management, even in education or that kind of stuff. For purposes of psychological balancing, it may be necessary and I want to state it here now; at the presidential forum which we attended very recently, in the Ministers’ presentation I think there is that proposal. As a matter of fact, they have even set up a Presidential committee to oversee the possibility of harmonizing the system. They are trying to experiment with Kaduna Polytechnic and Yaba College of Technology as city universities. So the polytechnic system is now gradually being phased out. They can now become either a college or department of universities that exist closely, like in the UK. This should improve the standard of education.
How has IMSU dealt with the endemic problems of cult activities and exam malpractice?
Very recently we attended a stakeholders meeting at Abuja, organized by the Senate Committee on Education in conjunction with the Exam Ethics. The essence of that was to see how we could fashion out, with the assistance of the lawmakers, a bill against cultism. We look forward to these. But within the university here I must tell you, we are fortunate that we have a very formidable anti-cult group called, "Peace on Campus" squad. They are para military in nature. There is an interface between that and the existing local security agencies. From the Senate’s point of view, any student that is apprehended in connection with cultism is to be expelled.
What about Exam Malpractice?
I wouldn’t like to dwell much on the issue but we are doing a lot to tackle exam malpractice in the university. Lately, the post -UME policy is one reform that will eventually check exam malpractice in the system because the crop of students we are getting from the post UME exam are the crop of students that are now ready to study. They know that they have to study to pass any exam. It is a gradual process, but it is working, It will also take care of cultism because those that are involved in cultism are those that are not prepared at all to study.
You stated in your vision that you will focus on manpower development. How far have you gone in this direction?
We have done quite a lot in this. There was this policy in the older universities where the best graduating student is adopted into the programme of Graduate Assistance, from there you can now groom them. I have implemented that approach since I came in. I have also opened a window for staff to attend no fewer than 15 international conferences. I know two went to Cambridge, three to some other universities, and a whole lot to North America and Continental Europe. And lately from January, I have sent close to 133 staff to conferences within the country.
Who is Prof. Innocent Okonkwo?
I am Innocent Chuka Okonkwo. I hail from Ezioha Amaifeke in Orlu L.G.A, attended Uli High School, in the then East Central State and now Anambra State.  I proceeded to North America and had my first degree in Economics, with distinction at the St Thomas (Jesuit) University. I appeared consecutively in the Deans list and on graduation I was the second valedictarian of the University. I was awarded the University’s prestigious fellowship and on completion of my Masters programme in Economics, I proceeded to the Brighton, in the United Kingdom, where I obtained my Ph.D. in Industrial Economics. When I completed my Ph.D. programme, I came back to this country, first, the Federal Polytechnic, Idah; where I started my academic career, invited me and I eventually transferred to Imo State University at Okigwe. There I was appointed a senior lecturer,   I got promoted from the Senior lecturer position to a professor. From there I became the Dean of the College of Business Studies and for a long time I remained in the Faculty of Business Administration until  I contested for the Office of the Vice Chancellor. 



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Samson Ebele you are a disgrace to Nairalanders i mean it. Who told you that University Graduate are policy Makers? are they Piliticians? Can you see what you are trying to make UNI GRADs into? i am really disapointed in you because you are lacking in the focus of this site you better appologies or be more critized by FELLAS. We are built to encourage each other not to call yourself a policy maker when you cannot defend what you read. I belive you to be someone that graduate on been pushed may be something less than a pass but rounded up to become a pass.

I have this to say to fellow nairalanders.
I was listening to the program* the president explains* this morning saturday 23/12/06 on Metro FM and radio Nig. Someone asked Mr. president about the segregatiion between HND and BSC and if his initiative of the the equation will end at the expiratioin of his administration,do you know whet he said? he said and i quote " HND and BSC have been equated and nothing can change it and for supremacy, it depends on the holders of the above to prove theirselves in the place of their work" and that the initiative will continue like that HND=BSC take note.

What i want to say here is that i am very satisfied with Mr. president comments and it is up to us to do our best in our places of work to prove ourselves and forget about blind Nigerians that belives in discrimination. Please prove your self where you work and most of all be very sincere in discharging your duty and see how fast you can excell.

we are the same graduate and the society through this administration has started knowing it, the president have cleared my fears Now is time to report employers of labour that discriminate (MOBIL NIGERIA TAKE NOTE I AM SOON TO SUE YOU WHEN I GET A GOOD LAWYER).We will definately progress.

But one more thing i still need clearification my Fellas is this can an HND holder goes for MASTER DEGREE now that this equation has statrted been enforced? I want to know more guys.
Jeffer Egbadon,
emmigrant01@yahoo.co.uk

i am pleased with your infomation but there is a problem your info is not really explicit can you be more explicit please. When is it closing, are my going there or posting my Cv? let fellow Nairalanders Know thanks.