THE Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has said the 2010 admission into tertiary institutions will be worst in the history of the country, as he revealed that the board currently had over 6.4 million candidates out of which only 500,000 would be offered admission.

Speaking in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Sunday, Professor Ojerinde said the high rate of admission into the universities was now survival of the fittest, adding that the development had led to examination malpractices.

He said quality education was not obtainable in universities alone, adding the polytechnics or colleges of education also had good education.

Meanwhile, the JAMB boss has urged coordinators of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to defend the image and integrity of the board by ensuring that they conducted credible examinations devoid of malpractices.

Professor Ojerinde made the call in Gombe, at the weekend, during the UTME coordinators meeting for the northern states, held at the multipurpose hall of the Gombe State University.

He said the meeting was an opportunity for the board to train the coordinators who would, in turn, train supervisors and invigilators on the guidelines for the smooth conduct of the examination, while warning that supervisors who failed to attend the briefing session would not be allowed to participate in the conduct of the examination.

Professor Ojerinde enumerated the achievements of the board to include the quick processing of results with the release of the 2009 Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) 10 days after its conduct and the Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education (MPCE) examination five days after it was written.

He said the UME and MPCE had been combined to form UTME, adding that all candidates who wished to be admitted to universities, monotechnics/polytechnics and colleges of education would write the same matriculation examination.

Dis Guy:

_{I personally thought they failed so many people in the last exams so they have less numbers to deal with}

Black_Revo:

If they failed much people in the last exams then definitely they should have more people to deal with this year and remember also that they have combined the UNI/POLY JAMB together for this year.

violent:

500 000 will be offered admissions

5,900,000 will have to wait!

2,900,000, will wait for another year, perhaps minor percentage of the population from a wealthy background will move into private institutions while some will try A levels, Polytechnics and College of educations.

3,000,000 of those on the waiting list will give up on the dreams of going to a higher institution

of the 3,000,000, perhaps half, will look for alternative legal means of survival such as learning a trade, becoming helps, more fortunate wealthy ones will open small boutiques, engage in large scale entrepreneurship while  others might take to farming,a minority will start thinking about travelling out to any part of the world to take up a less satisfactory jobs for survival. . . a smaller minority might decide to go into local politics.

half of the other 150,000 might engage themselves in illegal means of obtaining money such as online fraud, extortion, armed robbery, pick pocketing, money rituals, drug peddling, prostitution, human trafficking etc.

The remaining half will simply do nothing! other than stay at home and feed off relatives, many of those will attend more night vigils and Muslim prayer sessions for breakthrough!.


Summary of all the Jargon:

The country is doomed

Feraz:

Exactly! They are going to be much. Do u think this idea of combining the exams together make sense?

MsTom:

Jamb was supposed to be abolished a long time ago. It is not a true test of knowledge rather, it is a waste of time

Black_Revo:

Yes it makes and it might not make but i support the combination because of the neglect towards the other types of educational institution ( Poly, Colleges, Technical and Vocational schools. ). The university is not meant for everyone and it is time we start applying the Asian method of forcing these students into the other educational institutions apart for the university.

Nigeria is a developing country and we need more students in the polytechnics, special institutions, technical and vocational schools.

Those who failed should be forced into the colleges, poly, technical and vocational schools. No sitting down at home and i also think it is time we start embracing the pre-university education aspects as well if not for corruption.

Feraz:

agree with d bolded but u know it's going to bring about more malpractices or don't u think so?

jemmyvibe:

What happens to the remaining 5.9m people?