JAMB PCE Fallout: Youths Showing Dwindling Interest in Polytechnics

The dwindling interest youths were showing in Polytechnics (JAMB  PCE Fallout)

JAMB Expresses Concern Over Poor PCE Enrolment

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday expressed unhappiness over the dwindling interest youths were showing in Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Matriculation Examination (PCE).
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Bello Salim, raised the alarm, lamenting that technological development in the country was in grave danger if the trend was not checked.

He said about 150,000 candidates were expected to sit for this year's examination this weekend, adding that "this number compare to 215,000 candidates who sat for the 2004 Poly JAMB indicates a decrease of 30.24 per cent."
He said Nigerian youths were systematically shunning technical and teacher education, judging from the pattern of application for the forth-coming examination and in the last couple of years.

Warning that the development, no doubt, portends great danger for the nation's quest for technological development.

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"Discriminatory policies of government that placed university graduates over and above their counterparts from polytechnics and colleges of education must have been the reason for the low turn-out at the Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education examination weekend.

"Most candidates, who spoke to THISDAY, said they were only taking the examination as an alternative should they perform below expectation in the University Matriculation Examination (UME)."

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Anything can happen. Afterall, Polyt.... has been very useless to me.

You are among the lucky ones because people now are regretting why they ever suffered themselves for that school.

I think people choose it when they've got no other choice.

Sometimes, It is not their faults. They are only being scared by the little regard most instutions and companies give to graduates from their schools. Someone from Poly... was complaining to me that despite the  practicals their schools are noted for, the universities' graduates are rather chosen than they, poly.. grads during interview.
In view of this, I feel we can be able to restore this situation by giving equal consideration to people from both schools.

tell me who will chose a training  program that is limiting in benefits? and i will show you a desperate person.

Govt. should give the polytechnics equal opportunity as they did give the universities. if they think that poly is not that important they can scrap it or increase the year to six years to march university equivalent.

it has be so because everybody wants to prove his worth in life. so how will one want to embark on what will make them inferior before others (after all we all  went to the same secondary school or college  and probably you were better then some that got UME. only the almighty Jamb is now making you lower

if you can recall during our secondary sch. days class A, B, C are regarded as the best classes and we all wished we were there but we took solace that the fact remains we are getting the same treatment and certificate after six years.

so if they want to see improved enrollment into poly they should give it a befitting benefits equal to universities even if it means
increasing the course content and year of complition or revise the trend and university will suffer similar fate( after all most Igbos now prefare trade to sch. since capital makes the man in Nigeria use what i mean by limiting benefits) after all Governors that are doctorate holders relays on semi illiterates as god fathers (Na so we dey see am for Nijaa!!)

Well, there is a point there. This world is really changing, everybody is almost comfortable and can afford paying schoolfees for even the most expensive University. So, this will mean there will be declination in Poly.. attendance.

Anyways, I'm really confused for this nation's educational system. Look at  post jamb exams being rejected now after all money spent to host them.

I am still referring our problems to pre-mature independence