By Ekuson Nw’Ogbunka Abuja
The program coordinator of Gboko Polytechnic in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Adams Richard says polytechnic graduates have been competing more favourably in all ramifications than their university counterparts.
He addressed journalists at the matriculations organized recently by the polytechnic in Abuja.
Making his points, he said: “It is a known fact that polytechnic students are better off, compared to their university counterpart, because no student of a polytechnic leaves the school without having one skill or the other. Entrepreneurship is encouraged,” even as he added that the employers of labour, prefer the polytechnic graduates to their university counterparts.
While treating dichotomy between the polytechnic Higher National Diploma (HND) and its University equivalent of Bachelor’s Degree with a wave of hands, he informed that the problem would soon be a thing of the past, as Nigeria’s 10th Assembly has begun to address the dichotomy problem.
Speaking on the importance of matriculation, he informed that matriculation was like an initiation process for the students, indicating that that they have been fully enrolled into the school with Matriculation Numbers, issued to various departments and it marked the end of admission in the academic session.
While urging the government to do the needful to address anomalies in the education sector, he also said that there is the need for all hands to be on deck to move the sector to the expected level
Comparing the private and public schools, he has this to say: “As you are aware, even the government officials don’t take their children to public schools, because they know the best can’t be found in there, and allegedly, what you get is occultism, drugs, extortion, promiscuity and strikes, among others. No government agency works well in our country.”