THERE is a jam in our tertiary institutions admission. Unfortunately, the regulatory Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which last month, raced to decongest the process, became part of the problem; creating more chaos leading to protests by students, teachers and parents. JAMB was forced to abandon its new policy.

There are 1.4 million applicants seeking admission into some 140 universities with a maximum space of 450,000, and a further 350,000 spaces in other tertiary institutions. After the JAMB entrance examinations, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) for instance, had at least 32,000 applicants who met the cut off mark required to seat for the university’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE). The problem is that the institution has only 9,000 spaces, which means over two thirds of these qualified candidates will not be admitted.

Rather than allow all qualified candidates to sit for the UMTE, JAMB decided to redistribute some of them to other universities, including private ones, that did not have enough applicants. In the University of Ilorin, JAMB decided that only a fifth of the qualified candidates will be allowed to take the.. Read more


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