ARCON president says HND graduates are Not qualified to be licensed Architects.
President of Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON), Gabriel Ajayi, has said Higher National Diploma holders in Architecture are not qualified to be licensed by ARCON.
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Ajayi said it is because people believe they do not have sufficient educational qualifications to be licensed as architects in Nigeria.
He made the clarification when he spoke with journalists on the occasion of his 66th birthday in Lagos.
Below are his words;
“In Nigeria today, we have two ways technical line and executive. Abroad, when you go to the university, that is executive line, when you go to technical school, that is technical line.
“Unfortunately, in Nigeria, we believe you can cross without paying the price. How do you become an engineer or a medical doctor without fulfilling the requirements?
“We have problem of nomenclature in Nigeria. People don’t want to accept what they have, whereas in China, Canada, where I have visited, the middleman power shakes the economy. For Nigeria to develop, we need the middleman power more than the executive.
“By the law establishing us, we are not competent to induct and license HND graduates as architects. ARCON is not a degree-awarding school, we are a regulator of the profession.
“For the HND graduates, they need to return to school, upgrade themselves to the executive line”.
He added that ARCON has been able to convince some HND graduates through meetings with their associations.
“With this development, agitation hitherto coming from that end has subsided greatly. Today, I am sure that, those with HND know the route to go. It is either you had done Finals 1, Finals 2, then enlist for Architects Regularisation Programme (ARP) and after, enlist for Architects Competency Programme (ACP) or with your HND, you go to the university to get your B.Sc in architecture and then, you enlist for your Master’s degree”.
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Ajayi, also noted that all HND graduates are recognized but as technicians. He added that ARCON inducts those who wish to stay on that level as technicians.
“It is unfortunate that, many don’t want to be recognised as draftsmen. That is the word. I was a draftsman, but I upgraded myself by going to the university to spend eight years and two years for pupilage before I became a registered architect. By and large, this issue is being resolved as some of them, have already registered to do the April programme and I wish them well.”
HND graduates are not qualified to be licensed as Architecture in Nigeria is originally written by Nyscinfo.com.
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If we are talking about real book a beg don’t bring hnd please.
Please when will the link for choosing STATE OF DEPLOYMENT be open again?
I have successfully complete my registration BUT it shows to me there’s no available slot for deployment.
Please help me sort this Oo.
Be patient!
That’s sound very unfair as to me the hnd holder are better well trained than those University graduates. Am saying this because have been through both. For about this University thing. I respect hnd holder to bsc holder.