NBTE announced the introduction of a one-year top-up programme for polytechnic graduates to convert their HND certificates to a Bachelor's degree.
The controversy surrounding the dichotomy between the certificates awarded by the Nigerian polytechnics and universities deepened at the weekend as theThe National Board for Technical Education , the regulatory body for polytechnics, introduced the one-year top-up programme in partnership with some foreign universities to convert the Higher National Diploma certificates to degree certificates.
“Both the NUC Establishment Law and its Operational Law: Education Act, CAP E3 LFN, 2004) vest in the Commission the powers to superintend and regulate university education in Nigeria, lay down minimum academic standards in the nation’s universities and other degree-awarding institutions, and accredit their programmes,” part of the statement reads.
He said: “He wrote us a letter saying you are now becoming a degree awarding agency. I said no. The degrees are being awarded by those foreign universities. We’re only facilitating by giving our curriculum for credit mapping. We replied to him and he instructed the NUC to also write. So they wrote to us and we explained to them that we are not awarding degrees because we know that NBTE has no powers to award degrees.
He said although the board did not directly approach any Nigerian university, he said it wrote the Ministry of Education and NUC, both of whom he said appeared to be reluctant to key into the initiative.
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