NUC disowns the NBTE initiative, alleging it will elevate HND students to BSc rank

According to Maiyaki, polytechnics and universities coexist side by side in the majority of higher education systems in order to provide essential human resources.The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) top-up program, which claimed to close the gap between polytechnic and university degrees, has been rejected by the National Universities Commission (NUC).This information may be found in a statement that Chris Maiyaki, the commission's acting executive secretary, made accessible to reporters on Saturday in Abuja. Remember that stakeholders have been urging the elimination of the discrepancy between Bachelor degrees offered by universities and Higher National Diplomas (HND) offered by polytechnics for years. This brought about a bill passed at the ninth National Assembly in 2021 to end the dichotomy but it was not signed into law by the last administration.