between hnd and Bsc
Oct. 4th 08:50 AM 2010
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer
Ordinarily, by virtue of the number of years required to obtain the Higher National Diploma (HND) and Bachelor Science (BSC) one would think that the HND and BSC are the same but in Nigeria the reverse is the case.
The discrepancy between these two has lingered and will continue until something drastic is done to it. The Head of the Civil Service, Mr. Steven Orasanya even affirmed it from his school of thought that there is no way that the HND can be compared to the BSC irrespective of the fact that it will take the same number of years to acquire the result. And this is why holders of HND in the civil service are left without promotion after a certain period. Recently, The Federal Road Service Corps released guidelines for recruitment and again the HND was placed below the BSC.
The issue is not whether the HND and BSC are of the same grade, but it is whether result obtained makes a better student. I don