Art and Science Courses That Are Not Available To Study In Nigerian Polytechnics, See Reasons

Art and Science Courses That Are Not Available To Study In Nigerian Polytechnics, See Reasons

It’s always something surprising, when I heard student asking if Polytechnic Is Offering some courses like Law, Medicine and Surgery, Nursing or Pharmacy, but I concluded that, what you don’t know, you don’t know.

 So, if you are doubting or bothering if Polytechnic offer those courses, you are at the right place to get all the necessary information you need to get out of the doubt.

When thinking of what could be the reason for student and candidates to see polytechnics as a category of higher institution that could be offering law and some other course or not, then I realized they don’t get know what Polytechnic really means as an institution. So let’s see what Polytechnic be like.

What is the meaning of Polytechnic as an Institution?

Let me start like this, the word Polytechnic is coin from two different words, which are “Poly” mean Many and Technic which fully means Technique or Technology  

So, a polytechnic is a Higher Institute of Learning, purely focused on Professional Technical and Vocational Course.     

Are Polytechnic Offering Law?

If, I have to answer this question directly, it is Capital “NO”

Polytechnic are not meant to offer law as a course because Law is a core Art course, it’s not science nor technical related in any way, so it is only offered in the University, which means, not even monotechnic or colleges of education can offer Law.

Does Polytechnic Offer other Core Art Courses like linguistics, English and Philosophy?

Apart from Law, there are some other core art courses which are not available in the polytechnic such as linguistics, English and Philosophy. 

The same story that forbidden offering law in Polytechnic, also cause in the unavailability of those courses to study in the polytechnic as well.

But apart from those mentioned core art courses, there are other art courses offered in polytechnics such as Public Administration, Mass Communication, Local Government Studies and others.

Does Polytechnic Offer Medical Courses

The core medical courses like Medicine and Surgery, Nursing and Pharmacy are not offered by the polytechnics, they only offer some medical related course.

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