The management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has condemned and rejected the new Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) cut off marks for universities admission for 2017/2018 academic calendar.

A statement released by the university management, reads: “The Management of the University of Ibadan wishes to inform the public about the recently announced cut off marks of 120 for University Admission that UI will not lower her standards.

The Nigeria’s premier university still maintains her position in academic excellence and standards in order to continue to aspire towards becoming a world-class university.

It should worry us as patriots that candidates who scored just 30% in UTME can be admitted into some of our universities. Yet, we complain of poor quality of our graduates. You can hardly build something on nothing.

The consolation here is that since JAMB started conducting this qualifying exam in 1978, UI has never admitted any candidate who scored less than 200 marks out of the maximum 400 marks.

This remains our position as an institution aspiring to be world-class. Reality is that only about four other universities in the country have such high standard.

In fairness to the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, he repeatedly stressed at the Combined Policy Meeting held Tuesday, 22 August, 2017 that the Senate of each university still has wide powers for admission in the spirit of autonomy.

It is also gratifying to note that the Honourable Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who chaired the meeting, apologised publicly for canceling Post UTME Screening last year.

To be fair to the incumbent Registrar of JAMB, he was not the Registrar when the policy somersault of cancelling POST UTME test was made last year. Prof Oloyede’s appointment was effective 1 August 2016, while the Policy Meeting for that year had held some two months earlier.”


Source: http://www.wobegist.com/2017/08/ui-rejects-jambs-120-admission-cut-off.html

Good

I know ui will never accept that mediocre cut off mark.
Kudos to them

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That's my Alma Mater! We are nothing but primus inter pares

Nice

Jamb gave 120 as the minimum cut off mark and gave institutions the full autonomy to set any cut off they deem fit but not below 120 so I don't see how university of Ibadan rejected the minimum cut off mark.(120)
I see some people are having issues with the word minimum.
No university can go below 120 but can go above it even if it is 300.

Bloggers ehn.

I trust UI

Lalasticlala

Talking about standard

Before nko?

See my account balance is working for all mtn sim.

I trust them

ok

The premier university

but jamb said versities are free to choose dier cut-off but shldnt be less dan 120...wats the essence of rejecting when its not fixed..must everytin be confrontational in this country

Everyday confusion in our education...

Time to return the criteria back to the one used during the late Awo & Zik era;

when our education was a delight to the world!

The North wants to bring everything to their level.

Na why we must leave this zoo

pity!Malam is in charge of ministry of Education,no wonder!

no bisness being here

Nicely done jarey jamb wan spoil naija education 120/400 no b fail be dat

u av the power to set ur departmental and general cut off mark for ur sch.... y r dey reject the jamb cut off.. after all the jamb registrar is also one of them.....

calebify1:
Jamb gave 120 as the minimum cut off mark and gave institutions the full autonomy to set any cut off they deem fit but not below 120 so I don't see how university of Ibadan rejected the minimum cut off mark.(120)

True. The media is just misinforming the public

Wobegist:

The management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has condemned and rejected the new Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) cut off marks for universities admission for 2017/2018 academic calendar.

A statement released by the university management, reads: “The Management of the University of Ibadan wishes to inform the public about the recently announced cut off marks of 120 for University Admission that UI will not lower her standards.

The Nigeria’s premier university still maintains her position in academic excellence and standards in order to continue to aspire towards becoming a world-class university.

It should worry us as patriots that candidates who scored just 30% in UTME can be admitted into some of our universities. Yet, we complain of poor quality of our graduates. You can hardly build something on nothing.

The consolation here is that since JAMB started conducting this qualifying exam in 1978, UI has never admitted any candidate who scored less than 200 marks out of the maximum 400 marks.

This remains our position as an institution aspiring to be world-class. Reality is that only about four other universities in the country have such high standard.

In fairness to the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, he repeatedly stressed at the Combined Policy Meeting held Tuesday, 22 August, 2017 that the Senate of each university still has wide powers for admission in the spirit of autonomy.

It is also gratifying to note that the Honourable Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who chaired the meeting, apologised publicly for canceling Post UTME Screening last year.

To be fair to the incumbent Registrar of JAMB, he was not the Registrar when the policy somersault of cancelling POST UTME test was made last year. Prof Oloyede’s appointment was effective 1 August 2016, while the Policy Meeting for that year had held some two months earlier.”


Source: http://www.wobegist.com/2017/08/ui-rejects-jambs-120-admission-cut-off.html

Okay agreed. But Is UI herself and their selfs developing to offer world class education or they are just testing intellectuals by chunking in textbooks and testing the students if they grab its entirety.

120 is too low and poor but all this universities are against it under the guise being a world class uni. Stl yet they aint even among the best in africa, besides some of 1st class graduates of this uni's are sometimes poor beyond expectations.

Fake news

The end result will be this... Post UTME is Returns...

fineguy11:
but jamb said versities are free to choose dier cut-off but shldnt be less dan 120...wats the essence of rejecting when its not fixed..must everytin be confrontational in this country

I'm disappointed if the write up is true, jamb clearly said university are free to fix its cut off and conduct its post UME, the school is just been silly.

Tell them!! Greatest of the greatest!

It's really a time to declare a state of Emergency in the Educational sector of Nigeria. Seriously we're sliding down the scale from best to worst. If nothing is done we may hit the bottom sooner or later.


120 as a minimum cut off point is just too low or constitutes/encourages mediocrity in the system.