The Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is willing to implement the waver that will end the Bsc and HND dichotomy in the country.
Ojerinde, who made the disclosure in Abuja after meeting with the president, said that solving the lingering crisis of admission into universities is top of the new administration’s agenda.
His words: “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.
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“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 waver of the dichotomy between HND and the Bsc degree. The so called HND should now be changed to Btech which means Bachelor of Technology,” he added.
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