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Erc Calls For Reversal Of Admission Screening Exercise Fee In Lasu by sanjex212: 10:05pm On Jun 14, 2016 |
It is no news that the authorities of Lagos State
University (LASU) have called for application
from qualified applicants for her 2016/2017
admission.
In the same vein, the University authorities
have also increased the admission screening
exercise fee by over 100% from N2,300 to
N5,000 this year. Also the University authorities
have raised the UTME cut off mark for
eligibility to sit for the admission screening
exercise to 190 over and above the 180
proposed by the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Having examined these two developments and
their implication, the Education Rights
Campaign (ERC) finds that the over 100 percent
increment in admission screening exercise fees
to be unjust, exploitative and anti-poor. We are
also concerned about the negative implication
the 190 UTME score set by LASU for eligibility
to sit for its admission screening exercise would
have for applicants many of whom are from
poor working class homes.
OUR ARGUMENTS:
1. We find it difficult to reconcile the cost
of conducting admission screening
exercise in a university like the Lagos
State University with the amount levied
on each applicant. More so, considering
the teeming population of applicants the
University will get and the turn over
that would be realized, one can only
conclude that the increment is a
deliberate attempt to exploit the
applicants all in the name of increasing
the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR)
of the University. More so, increasing
admission screening fee at this period of
economic downturn when many
working class families are going through
enormous hardship is rather insensitive.
The ERC also see this increment as one
that does not have the interest of the
applicants at heart and a deliberate
attempt to take education away from the
reach of the poor masses.
2. On the increase of the cut off mark, no
doubt we acknowledge that it is
necessary for the Lagos State University
to maintain its high standard of
scholarship by ensuring that only the
best gain admission. However we
believe that this cannot be achieved
simply by raising the cut off mark. We
recall that when Universities pushed for
the creation of the Post-UTME test some
years ago, the argument was that JAMB
scores were no more reliable for
assessing applicants competence given
the enormous malpractice that often
characterize UTME every year, therefore
Universities needed their own separate
screening in the form of the Post-UTME
test. Logically therefore, raising the
UTME cut off mark for eligibility to
apply for admission into LASU would
not in any away guarantee that the best
would gain admission. Rather, it would
only ensure that many applicants who
scored marks lower than 190 not
because they were not good enough but
due to the malpractice that still
characterize UTME are unable to have a
fair shot at admission.
OUR POSITION
Having put forward the arguments above, we
hereby demand the following:
1. The University management should
reverse the admission screening exercise
fee in the best interest of applicants
majority of whom are from poor working
class background.
2. We hereby urge the University
management to kindly allow all qualified
applicants with 180 UTME score and above
to apply for the admission screening
exercise.
3. We believe the Lagos State University
management team ably led by Prof. Lanre
Fagbohun is a student-loving team. We will
therefore be enormously grateful if the
management can consider our arguments
and positions and do the needful to
address all of these issues.
At the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), we
campaign for a free, credible and qualitative
education at all levels of the educational
system.
signed
Dhikrullah Aasim (Bintinlaye)
Coordinator
ERC LASU Branch. |
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