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Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by FreeStuffsNG: 8:05pm On Apr 27 |
Age limit for varsity admissions backward WHILE the Nigerian tertiary education landscape is plagued with problems that demand urgent attention, the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, seems interested in exploring a controversial policy. During his tour of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination centres, Mamman said that the Federal Government is considering the adoption of 18 years as the entry age for admission into universities and other tertiary institutions. This is a backward proposal; it should be consigned to the dustbin. https://punchng.com/age-limit-for-varsity-admissions-backward/ 36 Likes 5 Shares
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Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by FreeStuffsNG: 8:05pm On Apr 27 |
Hmmm. The Executive Secretary of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede ,sometime last year or 2022 , while addressing a National Assembly committee sitting on this issue, expressly stated that the law that sets up JAMB does not give it the authority to fix admission age or set age limit for universities so the JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian, is out of line with this position of Prof Ishaq Oloyede on JAMB law and the limit of its power. Even if FG wants to experiment with a new age limit, I do not think it should be immediately implemented because the candidates have sat for the exam and chosen their preferred university based on the age limit set by their university of choice. Also, it can't be done without encroaching on the autonomy of the universities. This Punch editorial is raising vital points that make such idea a misplaced priority so it's necessary for FG to drop the idea and let the university fix its own age limit but shouldn't be less than 16 years. I am a bit confused by the conflicting signals that the current Minister, who as VC, of Baze university, was running a 5 year law program for 3 years until Nigerian Legal Council suspended Baze university from admitting fresh law students, is now the one championing an age limit situation where students who finish high school at 16 years will stay at home for two years before being eligible to sit for JAMB and earn a placement in Nigerian universities. 16 as minimum age for university admission should remain. If 18 will be considered, it should not be immediately implemented, it should be at the behest of the universities and backed by law. As at now, age limit for admission is not even a problem for the universities. This Punch report really makes sense to me. May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs! 39 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Seunpapa65: 8:08pm On Apr 27 |
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Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by LibertyRep: 8:11pm On Apr 27 |
16 - 17 is fair. This has to be regulated somehow. We can pretend not to see that parents rush their wards through primary and secondary schools, using any means possible 16 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by TemplarLandry: 8:11pm On Apr 27 |
Backward and babaric policy. 37 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by JASONjnr(m): 8:12pm On Apr 27 |
This has always been in existence. But was only affecting the poor. While the rich either make away through it or send their kids to private varsities. The govt should tell us the changes this will make? Holding back the poor kids to stay home and get old while the dummy rich kids scale through with private varsity. 9 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Cindypresh(f): 8:48pm On Apr 27 |
Tell them oo Later corporate offices will start looking for a 24yrs old graduate with 100yrs work experience. Akuko ndi ara 26 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by PressMyButton: 9:12pm On Apr 27 |
Even abroad there's age limit, oversabi dey worry nigerians. Let kids be kids and stop pushing unneccessary pressures on them. Varsity is for adults not kids. 52 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Eshera: 9:28pm On Apr 27 |
Very outdated 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Angelfrost(m): 9:28pm On Apr 27 |
Highly backward and stupid. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Ekakamba: 9:31pm On Apr 27 |
Progress in this country will occur when we comprehend our unique characteristics and cease futile comparisons with more advanced societies. 2 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by mrvitalis(m): 9:33pm On Apr 27 |
LibertyRep:Abroad smart people can be graduate by 16 People get PhD at 18 The law should simply be that if you are below 18 you can only go to university within 10km of your guidan or parents If you can pass weac at 5 years nothing stops you from going to university 5 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by TOPCRUISE(m): 9:35pm On Apr 27 |
It is because their children are not schooled in Nigeria that they begin to talk and propose nonsense. While they are using their under 18 children as a yardstick in measuring brilliance they all hide them abroad and begin to talk rubbish 4 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by rezzy: 9:36pm On Apr 27 |
16 years is okay which one is 18 years again? Abeg, Education minister can you just rest? 4 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by mrvitalis(m): 9:36pm On Apr 27 |
This is very very primitive thinking Abroad people finish secondary school and high school Which means they finished secondary school work, went to university and finished before their set graduation Less than 0.000001 percentage of the world change the world... Why would u want to limit them What then is the function of our national school of the gifted? 6 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Trojan8(m): 9:37pm On Apr 27 |
mrvitalis: Those are exceptional cases. If a child is a genius, it's totally fine to bend rules for them. Afterall, they would most likely live a life that's different from the average kid. For your everyday kids, a 16 year old in most cases is not matured enough to navigate the complexity of an environment outside the control of their parents. That's why we have a lot of depressed people these days because they are asked to do what have not yet developed to do. 14 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by mrvitalis(m): 9:38pm On Apr 27 |
Trojan8:Exactly that why there should be no limit If u want to put limit put limit in primary school 3 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by farouk2much(m): 9:39pm On Apr 27 |
I salute naija poor children will not see education again 1 Like |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by kingsways: 9:39pm On Apr 27 |
I am happy for this editorial and I really hope right thinking Nigerians will not sit by and watch an incompetent Minister of Education set the entire country backwards This is 21st century and age should not be a factor to determine who goes to the university 7 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by 2023Blessed: 9:39pm On Apr 27 |
ogascomax: chukwuma234: I deliberately quoted you two from the previous thread. Come and defend your fallacy that UK, US and "developed societies" peg entry into university at 18. Backward people, backward leaders, backward country. 2 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by WeLive: 9:43pm On Apr 27 |
Not backward In some developed countries, there are minimum fixed age to enter Primary and secondary schools. For example, you cannot start primary 1 unless you are 5 years. Then you cannot start secondary school unless you are 11 3 Likes
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Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by babat001: 9:45pm On Apr 27 |
Go FPN ( Federal poly Nasarawa) u will see kids that were supposed to be under parental control dressing half naked and doing so Wild stuff all in d name of freedom called " am in school" I think d age control is a good development FreeStuffsNG: 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Tsadu01(m): 9:45pm On Apr 27 |
Age limit a very good idea.. parent jss1 and 2 junior weac. Ss1 and 2 senior weac. Pry 1-4 common entrance. Within 8yrs. Pry and sec is over. A child of 13 already in university. 1 Like |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by Risingblue008(m): 9:46pm On Apr 27 |
To me Thats not a bad suggestion REZN Allow babies get in2 higher institution seems to be bad Its just like letting ur child to face the world on hes or her own at still a tender age 2)there are not physically and mentally matured to tackle peers issues and pressure like drug,cultism,hookups and hookdown 3)being in skool @ early age Leacturers uses it as an advantage to suppress u based on age and at this moment u r left under the armpitof the leacture(i see wen leaxture dey flogg uni-student)i was like my time for ekpoma,u no fit think of am not to excute sure, but had it been na matured men gain admin D leacturer seeing ir face full of beards go get limits towards u And so on E many and e good Make pikin balance for brain and mind b4 going tru the skool and d skool will go tru him/her too 2 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by tnerro1(m): 9:48pm On Apr 27 |
Itโs ok for a 14 year old girl to get married in the north, but it is not ok for a 18 year old person from the south to go to university. No be juju be that 6 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by 2023Blessed: 9:49pm On Apr 27 |
Trojan8:Rubbish talk. I graduated from the University at 18 and I am not a genius in anyway. You backward people with backward mentality should stop limiting the potentials of our children. 4 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by verifiablefacts: 9:50pm On Apr 27 |
It's also about time to extend the lifespan of Jamb results to two years or more. 2 Likes |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by WeLive: 9:51pm On Apr 27 |
mrvitalis:Which abroad? do not use one country that allows such freedom to generalize as abroad |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by mrvitalis(m): 9:53pm On Apr 27 |
WeLive:Every advanced country has no limit to get admired into the university These are one of the reasons igbos want to be independent 1 Like |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by LordIsaac(m): 9:57pm On Apr 27 |
WeLive:Exactly 1 Like |
Re: Age Limit For Varsity Admissions Backward - Punch Editorial Board by WeLive: 9:58pm On Apr 27 |
mrvitalis: Do not expose yourself and possible low IQ by writing trash you are not sure of with confidence 1 Like
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