Notwithstanding protests and criticisms that have characterised University of Lagos’s new JAMB cut-off point of 250 as opposed to the national benchmark of 180, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board ( JAMB), at the weekend, threw its weight behind the decision, stating that Nigerian universities must entrench global standards and ensure competitiveness.

The board explained that the decision to align with the institution’s new cut-off mark was to position Nigerian universities as the centres of excellence.

According to JAMB Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the board “has reiterated that the national cut-off marks of 180 for universities and 150 for Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and Innovative Enterprise institutions in the 2015 UTME was a bench mark to set the tone for 2015 admission exercise.

“The decision to have a national accepted cut-off mark at policy meeting was to serve as a guide and pruning mechanism to give the tertiary institutions qualitative and manageable candidates to choose from a pool of candidates desirous of tertiary education.”

He stressed that “universities and other levels of tertiary institutions are at liberty to go higher, but not lower, depending on their peculiarities and the performance of candidates that choose them.

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