The National Universities Commission (NUC) has discredited the reports that medical students in Nigerian universities would henceforth study for 11 years before obtaining an MBBS degree.

This was disclosed by the NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Julius Okojie, in Abuja,

According to him, the new Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS) for Medicine and Dentistry, which had since been made public by commission, only provides for a seven-year training, leading to the award of MBBS/MDS.

“A seven year MBBS programme that encompass a seamless four- year acquisition of the B.SC. Basic Medical Science with interest in either Anatomy/Physiology/Biochemistry.”

“At the end of seven years, students would have acquired the Bachelor of Medical Science, Bachelorof Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees. In case of dental programmes, students would have acquired a degree in Basic Dental Sciences and Bachelor of Dental Surgery.”
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House of Representatives directed the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to return to the former
pencil-paper method in conducting examinations for
candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions.

The House of Representative on Thursday, March 17
directed the Joint Admissions Matriculation Examination,
JAMB to discontinue the Computer Based Test, CBT. The
House said “technical flaws” recorded in the latest
computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination had exposed JAMB’s lack of capacity to
handle the computer-based tests.

The House also wants the examinations body to run both
the pencil- paper examination and CBT for candidates who
should choose how they want to write exam.

The resolution was passed after a lawmaker from Lagos
State, Mr. Oghene Emma-Egoh, had moved a motion on
the “conflicting” scores of candidates who took the
examination.

He said: “The House is worried that already, serious
admission problem is rocking the nation because JAMB
receives huge allocation from the Federal Government, they
charge candidates all manner of fees and majority of the
candidates do not gain admission because of the technical
hitches of the CBT.” He cited instances of conflicting scores
which was occasioned by technical flaws.

He said: “Foluke, the 17-year-old girl in Ejigbo-Lagos,
scored an aggregate of 156 in the first result, while in the
result that later came out, she had an aggregate of 196.”

Citing another instance, he said Ibrahim Shawulu from
Kogi state who scored 399 out of 400, but in less than 24
hours another result surfaced reducing Shawulu’s score to
199.

Other law makers while supporting insisted the CBT be
made optional for the students.

The House which approved of the motion after it was put to
a voice vote by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara also mandated
its committee on education to investigate the matter and
report back to the House for further legislative input.

- Source: http://www.codedexam.com/2016/03/dont-conduct-cbt-again-revert-to-pencil.html

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