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Thursday, 2 June 2016

BREAKING NEWS: FG SCRAPS POST UTME

Thursday, June 02, 2016 Posted by Anonymous No Comments

Nigeria’s Federal Government has scrapped the conduct of post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for candidates seeking admission into higher institution.

Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu made the announcement after declaring open the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher institutions in Nigeria.

The government explained that all tertiary institutions were at liberty to conduct screening for candidates seeking admission into any school.

Adamu expressed confidence in the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

He added that the examinations conducted are standard thus there was no need for other examination to be conducted by universities after JAMB.

The Minister also asked the JAMB to stop extra charges on several categories of changes on admissions such as the change of course, change of school and others.

Meanwhile, JAMB has pegged the cut – off mark for admission for 2016 at 180.

The 180 benchmark, applies to all universities and higher institutions in the country, including polytechnics, colleges of education, and others.

After a long debate with delegates from various institutions, JAMB’s Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde told journalists that no institution would go below the 180 cut-off set by the board.

He said: “180 is given, no institution will go below 180 this year, And some universities can go above it, I know University of Ife will not go below 200 and University of Lagos will not go below 200 and also UI. All these ones stand but 180 as bench mark for others.

“This year we have more than enough candidates, we have over 1.5 million candidates so we will get enough candidates to take in all the schools if they are serious. Re-distribution is already ongoing, because it is embedded in the registration procedure.”