How Federal Polytechnic, Offa Can Turn Two Years OND Journey To Four or More Years
"Imagine someone got admission in 2019, graduated in 2021 but had to wait till 2024 to proceed...."
Previous week, The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State released SOME results of hundreds of students who did the Ordinary National Diploma (OND) programme between 2019 to 2021.
Most of these students that wrote their final exams in December, 2021 are yet to see their results as the school portal where they suppose to see them still writes "results not available".
After they were done with the exams, MOST if not ALL of them are in different organizations/companies doing Industrial Attachment as the school has given them IT letters. How could they know they are doing IT without graduating from the said Polytechnic.
The school is about to commence this year second semester, they postponed it from 1st August to 15th 2022 due to "unforseen circumstances".
This year (2022) is passed for whoever among those who have carry over in the second semester but don't know due to portal's "results not available". Worse for those who are 'lucky' to see results but don't have the money to pay: both have to wait for the second semester of the 2023 academic calendar. The two categories would have to do their IT between 2023/2024. Imagine someone got admission in 2019, graduated in 2021 but had to wait till 2024 to proceed.
Should ANYTHING happens that prevents them from writing their carryover next year, they should entirely forget about the OND programme. Worse if they fail. In the Polytechnic mantra, it is stated that whoever has a carryover has two years (two attempts if fully utilized) to resit and pass or he/she should forget about it.
It is acute to say it was ingloriously released, for instead of the 'normal' count-your-losses-and-celebrate-your-win atmosphere, the release of the results left the students CONFUSED than ever before.
