The
Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board, (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has said President Muhammadu Buhari
is willing to implement the waver that will end the Bsc and HND
dichotomy.
Buhari
had received the updated report on the Bsc and HND controversy, which
was presented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education,
MacJohn Nwaobiala last Tuesday.
Speaking
to newsmen on Wednesday, Ojerinde recalled that the last administration
set up a committee to look at how the two could be merged.
Continuing
he said, “The system has not given adequate vision for the other levels
of education. We have not encouraged technical education, we have not
encouraged Teachers education also; in fact, we have not encouraged
agricultural education to the extent that everybody feels that the only
way to survive is to go to the University.
“The
only way to make it is to have a degree; so I am saying we should
revisit our system, we should look at why candidates don’t want to go to
polytechnics, and we should look at why they don’t want teachers’
education; we should also revisit why they don’t want agriculture.
“By our
experience, most people will like to study law, engineering, medicine,
accountancy, these are the top courses been sought for in the
universities; nobody wants to study education. So, I see we have problem
in that area and I am sure the Federal Ministry of Education is trying
to solve that problem.
“First
of all Technical Education, there’s dichotomy between Bachelors degree
and National Diploma or Higher National Diploma, (HND). It was one of
the things presented to Mr. President to find a way of implementing the
waiver of the dichotomy between HND and the Bsc degree. The so called
HND should now be changed to Btech which means Bachelor of Technology.
“Former
President Musa Yar’Adua may his soul rest in peace, said he doesn’t
have any problem with Btech. Unfortunately, government also has not
sorted this entire problem. And there are such cases of people like me
in this country, I wouldn’t have been able to read, I wouldn’t have been
able to go to school. So what I am saying is, government should look at
how we can improve technical education.
“Let me
refer to what Oby Ezekwensili the former Minister of Education said,
she was determined to implement Btech in our Technical System, college
of Education. All this places should be well equipped for Btech.
“Four
colleges of Education have been upgraded to universities of Education,
you will see the rush into those universities now because they can now
get bachelor’s degree. And when they come to the public, they will not
be a push away. So this is where we are, I think if I go by what we saw
on Wednesday, President Buhari and the Vice President listened and they
were interested in what we presented”.
Dailypost reportage.
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