Due to the National Youth Service Corps’ (NYSC) latest policy of demanding Industrial Training (IT) certification for those seeking to fulfil their national service obligations, some graduates of Higher National Diploma (HND) academic programmes across the country may be excluded from the national service.
NYSC stated on its official Facebook handle, that it has become mandatory for HND graduates to provide evidence of completing their one-year mandatory IT certificate before being registered in their respective camps.
The statement reads: “Graduates of Higher National Diploma (HND) are to provide evidence of completion of their one-year Industrial Training in addition to ND and HND Certificates/Statement of Results.”
This means that, graduates of polytechnic and mono-technic mobilised for Batch B stream II without evidence of the mandatory one-year industrial training will not participate in the national service.
The one-year mandatory IT programme is a prerequisite for admission to the HND programme, as stated in the law.
The law establishing the national service stipulates that graduates of polytechnics and monotechnics must undergo the one-year IT with evidence of completion before applying for a HND academic programme, and institutions must confirm this before admitting them.
But the reports gathered show that most of these HND awarding institutions do not confirm the IT-compliance before admitting students, thus graduating thousands of students who now face hurdles to participate in national service after being mobilised by the NYSC.
Besides, some polytechnic institutions have previously disregarded these regulations by enrolling students without the required one-year IT certificate.
Justifying the policy, NYSC coordinator in Lagos State, Yetunde Baderinwa. “It has been noticed in recent times that some graduates of polytechnics and mono-technics do not observe the mandatory one-year IT before being admitted for HND programmes. The one-year IT is a prerequisite for HND.
“They must undergo the one-year IT with evidence of completion before going for HND, and institutions must confirm this before admitting them for HND,”
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