Abuja—The Federal Government of Nigeria has put an end to the study of the Higher National Diploma (HND), Computer Science across all the technical institutions operating in the country.
This is to encourage diversification into the world of Computer Science and allow the country’s graduates to access the wide space of the field.
The stoppage of the study of HND Computer Science across HND awarding institutions in Nigeria is contained in a letter which was dated January 8th, 2024, and duly signed by Prof. Idris M. Bugaje, Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
The letter was addressed to the Director General, National Youths Service Corp (NYSC) while the Director General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and all Rectors, Provosts and Head of Polytechnics, Monotechnics, and all similar technical institutions were copied.
With this development, no HND Awarding institutions will be allowed to admit a new set of students to study Computer Science from the 2024/2025 Academic Session as the board projects to ease out the study of HND Computer Science by 2025.
Meanwhile, students who might have wanted to study computer science at the HND level can now choose from any of the four specialized areas floated from the former “Computer Science” discipline.
The four newly floated areas of specialization floated from Computer Science include HND Artificial Intelligence, HND Networking and Cloud Computing, HND Software and Web Development, and HND Cybersecurity and Data Protection.
