Post-UME exams not abolished – VC
By Francis Falola
Tuesday, 1 Jun 2010
http://www.punchontheweb.com/

The pressure and public outcry against post-University Matriculation Examination screening by Nigerian universities not withstanding, the National Universities Commission has endorsed the continuation of the exercise.


Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Prof. Mohammed Audu, disclosed this at the permanent site of the campus in Gidan-Kwano, Minna, on Monday, while briefing journalists on the programmes lined up for the institution’s 10th convocation ceremony.


According to the vice- chancellor, “Just this morning, the Secretary of the NUC said that universities would continue to screen candidates seeking admission to universities because he knows the implications of the contrary to the education sector.”


Audu, who lamented the level of dwindling interest in the sector said, “The fact is that those who are against the Post-UME test are parents of unsuccessful candidates who scored high in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination but failed to perform similar feat during post-UME test.”


With the NUC’s approval of the continued screening of candidates seeking admission to the nation’s universities through the post-UME test, Audu said, it would be easy for university authorities to ascertain the authenticity of candidates writing the examinations as well as the owners of the certificates.
House of Representatives voted against the continued use of the post-UME screening by tertiary institutions in the country following the controversies surrounding the exercise while the Senate is yet to look into the matter.


The VC also revealed that the Committee of Vice-Chancellors had earlier sent a position paper to the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Assembly and the NUC, analysing their findings within the short period the screening was introduced, while also advancing reasons for its continuation.


Audu said, “Before the introduction of the screening exercise, over 40 per cent of registered undergraduates in most universities could hardly cope with academic works when they got admitted. This puts a question mark on the high scores recorded by such students at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board examination.”


“The level of school dropouts has been on the increase despite the high grades such students scored in their WAEC/NECO and JAMB because there is the likelihood that many of them never sat for the examinations to get the grades they present to us for admission,” the VC further pointed out.

Post UME should be cancelled.

Why do want it that way?

supereagle:

Why do want it that way?

it was meant 4 gud initially but now it its an avenue 4 xtra cash    IT SHOULD BE SCRAPED!!!!!!!!!!!!

ENY OLA:

it was meant 4 gud initially but now it its an avenue 4 xtra cash    IT SHOULD BE SCRAPED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is it that we Nigerians are good at putting the Cart before the Horse? Okay if it is scrapped what next? If you said that it is now an avenue for extra cash then what you should be clamoring for is the standardization of Post UME so that universities cannot charge beyond the stipulated amount. That shld be the wisest thing to do and not scrapping it in its entirely. This is because if we scrap it, then we are going back to were we started from (dumb-heads gaining admission via JAMB Exam Malpractice), and that is not progress!