Positive and negative effects of scrapped post UTME

The national university commission has restated their stance on the scrapped 
post university matriculation examination. As an economics and education student, the following are the possible positive and negative effects on both the students, the universities and the economy.

The positive effects are:
1. The students will save some money: The major motive for the removal of post UTME is to save students from double spending on JAMB and post UTME.

2. The danger of travelling for post utme examination removed: We all know the dangers associated with travelling from Lagos to Delta state for example to write post UTME. The dangers range from accommodation difficulty to road accident etc

3. Saves the students from unnecessary inconvenience: in line with the point above, the inconvenience of having to sit for another examination after JAMB has been overcame.

4. Easy transfer: considering how difficult it is to get admission into some universities due to high number of applicants, using only JAMB can enable the students transfer to any other school.

5. Crime rate will be reduced: post UTME sometimes lead to the molestation and sexual abuse of young female jambites. With its removal, vulnerability of the students is reduced.

DISADVANTAGES
1. Lost of IGR to the school: Post UTME is one of the sources of generating internal revenue for universities. Removing it implies a reduction in the universities internally generated revenue.

2. Low accessibility to the school: Post UTME enable aspiring students to get to know each other before, during and after the examination to enable them get abreast about the admission process. It is also an avenue where the jambites get to know older students in the school and get information about the admission process and their admission status. Scrapping post UTME will keep the students in the dark about what is happening in their school of interest.

3. Post JAMB lesson reduces crime rate: In our present day Nigeria, post UTME lessons is more or less an unofficial and informal level of education after SSCE. Gone were the days when a high school leaver is seen as a jobless idler. Now with the proliferation of post UTME lesson centers, a temporary academic life is provided to help cushion the effect of being out of school thereby reducing crime rate.

4. Quota system will become more perverse: Using only JAMB as the only examination to get into higher institutions will only make quota system more pervasive due to lack of connectivity between the aspirants and the school as mentioned earlier.

5. Intellectual laziness: Another implication is the intellectual laziness that will accompany the removal of post UTME. Students preparing for post UTME use the opportunity to develop themselves intellectually but with the removal of the examination, there will be an intellectual laxity by the students after their JAMB examination putting into consideration the gap in terms of time difference between the time JAMB is written and when universities start admitting students.


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