Federal Executive Council Scraps The Award Of HND Certificates By Polytechnics

Nigeria Federal Executive Council Memebers

Nigeria has finally scrapped the award of Higher National Diploma Certificates by Polytechnics. This was disclosed yesterday at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja.

The FEC also agreed to forward two executive bills to the National Assembly for enactment into law. All Federal Polytechnics will now become campuses of the proximate universities.

According to the financialwatchngr, Mallam Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education, addressed the journalists after the weekly meeting of the council that under the reform measures, the ministry would, however, continue to licence private polytechnics and colleges of education for the award of qualification at ND and National Certificate in Education (NCE) levels.

The Minister said: “There will be no more award of HND.

After we have exhausted the current students under the programme, there will be no more award of HND. This means that there will be no fresh admission for HND programmes. And in addition, any programme that is not technical will be out of the polytechnics. About 70 per cent of polytechnic graduates are in the non-technical courses. It is going to be a rigorous implementation programme.”

A ministerial committee to ensure the smooth implementation of all that is required for the take-off of the reform initiatives is to begin work immediately.
Mall. Adamu said: “The HND certificate will remain a legal tender in Nigeria and holders of such certificate will continue to be recognised as the equivalent of first degree holders without discriminatory remunerations and limit to progression in the work place.

President Buhari and Minister of Education Mallam Adamu

The NCE certificate will be retained as the minimum teaching qualification at the basic level of education. Any higher qualifications by these private or state-owned polytechnics will be only affiliation with a university. So, HND is no longer in existence, but existing HND will be respected and considered legal tender.”

The council also approved the Federal Government’s formal take-over of the Waziri Umaru Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, which will be the College of Technology campus of the Othman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, as well as the Hussein Adamu Polytechnic, Kazaure, Bauchi, which will be a College of Technology of the proximate university in the state.
Also, the Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Imo State, has been taken over as a campus of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.

A state that had never had any federal institution, like Bayelsa, is to have a College of Technology as a campus of the College of Technology of the University of Port Harcourt.


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