The Federal House of Representatives have concluded arrangements to enact a law aimed at making the results of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board, JAMB's Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination UTME valid for three consecutive years. When this bill proposal is passed into Law, candidates who write the examination can use the result to seek admission into higher institutions in the country for three years after the sitting. The result is currently valid for seeking admission only for one year.

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I hope they mean it. It will go a long way if and when they pass the law.

Aspetta: I hope they mean it. It will go a long way if and when they pass the law.

The Steve Orasanya committee on the Rationalization of Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies and Parastatals had recently presented a recommendation that JAMB UTME should be discontinued and that the Board should only oversee admission processing without bothering itself with exams. With this news, one wonders if that recommendation has been jettisoned.

Anarchy. Each year over 1.5 million students take jamb, meanwhile our universities can admit at most 150,000. so how do you hope to aggregate students from 3 seperate years. How will the universities set their cut off marks? The problem is not JAMB but highly limited space in our universities for the huge demand.

wirinet: Anarchy. Each year over 1.5 million students take jamb, meanwhile our universities can admit at most 150,000. so how do you hope to aggregate students from 3 seperate years. How will the universities set their cut off marks? The problem is not JAMB but highly limited space in our universities for the huge demand.

The argument is sound. But I think there are more private and state government-owned universities coming on stream these days. If the already existing universities recieve the kind of funds they're demanding from the gov't now I think they should be able to absorb more students--this however cannot guarantee that they can take in even up to half. We need more higher and vocational institutions in this country. It's also an opportunity for investment. If only a state can take it up to roll out a tertiary institution free trade zone and give tax rebates and other sundry incentives to prospective investors to woo them I believe that one state can begin to talk about housing over 30 higher institutions on its soils. States like Imo, Osun, Ekiti, Anambra, Kaduna, Kwara, etc have comparative advantage.

thrash

Olugbenger: thrash

What part of the information is thrash?

1MCN:

What part of the information is thrash?

The policy, not the information.

At least one good thing they are trying to do. People will no longer waste their money and burn their heads unnecessarily. That's a good one.
i only hope more institutions are established.

Olugbenger:

The policy, not the information.

Okay, Boss

sbaks: At least one good thing they are trying to do. People will no longer waste their money and burn their heads unnecessarily. That's a good one.
i only hope more institutions are established.

I honestly wonder if the UTME is still relevant in these times at all. They (JAMB) should just busy themselves with admissions regulations.