One of the pillars of technological advancement in the country is polytechnic education. Polytechnic was set up to promote vocational education and training in skills and manpower for national development.
The 2004 National Policy on Education, which sets out objectives of polytechnic education in Nigeria, mandates it to provide technical knowledge and skills necessary for agricultural growth, industrial, commercial and economic development.
However, there has been clamour for the upgrade of the mandate of polytechnics to enable them award degrees and run postgraduate programmes as done globally.
The dichotomy between Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Higher National Diploma (HND) has been subject of contention over the years.
Stakeholders have severally made representations to the Federal Government to end the dichotomy. But for polytechnics, the issue has refused to go away, even when government waded in.
Recently,…
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