It' s FG " s ploy to crush open varsities "
Olufemi Atoyebi and Folashade Adebay o
SOME Vice-Chancellors and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have rejected the choice of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to peg confirmation cut - off check at 120 for colleges and 100 for polytechnics , monotechnics and schools of instruction .
ASUU said the activity , which it depicted as a "dismal strategy choice , " was pair " with the fantasy of the present government to demolish state funded colleges in the nation . "
The greater part of the vice - chancellors our reporters met on the issue kept up that they would not bring down affirmation guidelines in their individual varsities .
The vice - chancellors expressed that the choice would increase the value of the country " s university framework .
For example, in an announcement issued by the Vice - Chancellor , University of Ibadan , Prof. Idowu Olayinka , on the issue and discharged by his Media Assistant , Mr . Sunday Saanu, on Thursday , the chief university expressed that it could never concede any competitor that scored 120 in the UTME .
The announcement included, " It should stress us as nationalists that hopefuls who scored only 30 for each penny in the UTME can be conceded into some of our colleges . However, we gripe of low quality of our graduates . You can barely construct something on nothing . The comfort here is that since JAMB began directing this qualifying exam in 1978 , UI has never conceded any hopeful who scored under 200 stamps out of the most extreme 400 imprints .
" This means at least 50 for every penny . This remaining parts our position as an establishment seeking to be world - class. The truth is that lone around four different colleges in the nation have such exclusive expectation . To that degree , separated from being the most established , we are a world class university in the nation in any event judging by the nature of our admissions . ""
Olayinka , however , lauded the choice of the Federal Government to re - present the post - UTME test and excused the officeholder JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede , from the cancelation of the test two sessions prior.
" It is satisfying to take note of that the Honorable Minister of Education , Mallam Adamu , who led the meeting , apologized openly to cancel the post - UTME screening a year ago .
" in actuality , colleges are presently permitted to lead the test utilizing modalities endorsed by the Senate of every foundation .
" To be reasonable for the occupant Registrar of JAMB , he was not the Registrar when the arrangement somersault of scratching off the post - UTME test was made a year ago . As unequivocally peddled by us at each open door , for UI , the need to concede the best confirmation searchers is the essential inspiration for the test and not cash, despite the fact that we don't imagine that you can run any university so legitimately called without stores . "
Addressing one of our journalists on Thursday , the Vice-Chancellor , Tai Solarin University of Education , Ogun State , Prof. Oluyemisi Obilade, said that the onus would at last fall on guardians and businesses of work to choose " between a first - class graduate of a university which takes 120 as its cut - off stamp or one that takes 180 as its cut - off check . ""
Obilade, who said that TASUED could never go underneath 180 , demanded that a considerable lot of the VCs at the Combined Policy Meeting amid which the 120 benchmark choice was made , said they would not go beneath 180 .
She said , " But a few colleges picked 120 at the meeting . What the JAMB has done is to exchange control back to the Senate of colleges to choose their cut - off imprints . What I can let you know is that numerous state funded colleges and even private colleges won't go underneath 200. We were informed that a few colleges were doing what they called " under the table affirmation " and afterward return to JAMB following four years for regularization.
" TASUED won't go beneath 180 , not under my supervision . Indeed, even in the United States , there is the thing that we call Ivy League colleges , and there are those you can call " Next Level Universities . " There are additionally those that are named junior colleges . At the meeting , the result is that colleges have been given the opportunity to choose . It is not general enactment and it is not official on everyone . ""
Talking with writers in Ibadan , the Chairman of ASUU at the University of Ibadan , Dr . Deji Omole, said it was the fantasy of the present government to pulverize instruction in the nation .
He said , " Rather than endorsing the distinguished colleges that conceded more than 17 , 000 understudies illicitly , the JAMB enlistment center essentially regularized wrongdoing and brought down cut - off imprints to support the interests of the companions of government who claim private colleges and are never going to budge on annihilating state funded instruction . "
Omole said it was indispensable for JAMB to be rejected to spare the country " s training and its future . He said the board had outlasted its helpfulness and that forthcoming understudies ought to apply straightforwardly to colleges of their decision for confirmation.
He said , " Where are the understudies that the JAMB enlistment center said entered colleges unlawfully ? Which colleges conceded them? On the off chance that 30 for every penny did not take JAMB and discovered their way into the university framework , is that not defilement and a message that JAMB is not critical any longer ? What authorize did the individuals who did the illicit thing get other than regularization of illicitness .
" We are watching in light of the fact that well before now we have said that JAMB has outlasted its helpfulness . Give the colleges a chance to set their one of a kind norms and the individuals who are qualified can come in . Scoring 120 out of 400 imprints is 30 for every penny. Indeed, even in those days , 40 for every penny was reviewed as pass . In any case, now JAMB said with F9 which is scoring 30 for each penny you can be conceded.
" They intentionally need to devastate instruction . Notwithstanding for polytechnic , 100 imprints is 25 for each penny . It is pitiful. What's more, that is the place we are in Nigeria . They need to crush state funded training no matter what. This is not setting standard for instruction in Nigeria . It is simply settling for less and burrowing grave for the future . This is the reason ASUU is right now on the battle to impact the legislature to do the needful for training in Nigeria . "
Likewise , the Dean of Students Affairs , Federal University of Technology , Akure, Prof . Kayode Alese , who talked for the benefit of FUTA administration , said that the establishment would soon uncover its cut - off check .
" However, I can guarantee you that FUTA has never gone as low as 120. It has never happened and it will never happen , " he said .
Alese included, " Having represented the university , my genuine belief is that the 120 cut - off check won't increase the value of our instruction framework . The Federal Government has quite recently expanded the pass check from 40 to 45 in colleges . This means you should score no less than 45 for you to pass any course . We have enough hopefuls and yes you may endeavor to expand get to yet tertiary training ought to be for the individuals who have the capacity . ""
Additionally , the Vice-Chancellor , Obafemi Awolowo University , Prof. Tope Ogunmodede, said the organization would not concede any applicant with 120 UTME score .
He said , "Customarily , OAU has never conceded understudies who scored beneath 200 in the UTME . For us , we are adhering to 200 . The base benchmark is 120 however you can go higher than that . I expect that an establishment ought to have the capacity to decide the nature of its graduates in light of the fact that there are interior exams . What has been done is to give a breathing space to colleges to choose their cut - off imprints . "
Then , the National Association of Nigerian Students has portrayed the lessening of the cut - off imprints for induction into tertiary establishments as " a gross removal of need and a pointless activity . "
The association said that the diminishment by JAMB , from 180 for colleges and 165 polytechnics , to 120 and 100 individually for the 2017 UTME , would mean a shocking result later on .
The President of NANS , Chinonso Obasi, in an announcement on Thursday , debilitated that the choice would be opposed if JAMB declined to hold fast to business as usual .
He said , " As basic partners in the instructive division , NANS will energetically oppose the survey and approach government to keep up business as usual and attempt to lead a similar report and investigation of strategies from different climes that help useful learning and generation of youngsters that can contend with their companions all around .
"Indeed, even with the present status , the general wonder is that Nigerian graduates are not employable. The settling for what is most convenient option will mean a tragic result later on by producing youngsters who can't fit into the requests and desires of the 21 st century . ""
As per him , since the 21 st century is being driven by advancement and aggressiveness , bringing down the section level into tertiary organizations would just further add to decreasing the efficiency and pinnacle execution of youngsters looking for entrance into the nation " s higher foundations of learning .
However , the Vice - Chancellor of the Christopher University , Ogun State , Prof. Friday Ndubuisi , said the new confirmation benchmark would have no negative ramifications on the nature of training .
He said , " This is not an inconvenience . The cut - off check is a base benchmark for confirmation . This thought of taking the UTME consistently without getting confirmation is stressing . Around 1 . 6 million applicants sat for the examination this year and around 500 , 000 will be conceded for the most part due to the cut - off check . Most colleges won't go underneath 200, however with five credits acquired in two sittings, a man ought to be met all requirements for affirmation . This is , however , not a burden. Colleges still get the opportunity to settle on whom to a
Olufemi Atoyebi and Folashade Adebay o
SOME Vice-Chancellors and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have rejected the choice of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to peg confirmation cut - off check at 120 for colleges and 100 for polytechnics , monotechnics and schools of instruction .
ASUU said the activity , which it depicted as a "dismal strategy choice , " was pair " with the fantasy of the present government to demolish state funded colleges in the nation . "
The greater part of the vice - chancellors our reporters met on the issue kept up that they would not bring down affirmation guidelines in their individual varsities .
The vice - chancellors expressed that the choice would increase the value of the country " s university framework .
For example, in an announcement issued by the Vice - Chancellor , University of Ibadan , Prof. Idowu Olayinka , on the issue and discharged by his Media Assistant , Mr . Sunday Saanu, on Thursday , the chief university expressed that it could never concede any competitor that scored 120 in the UTME .
The announcement included, " It should stress us as nationalists that hopefuls who scored only 30 for each penny in the UTME can be conceded into some of our colleges . However, we gripe of low quality of our graduates . You can barely construct something on nothing . The comfort here is that since JAMB began directing this qualifying exam in 1978 , UI has never conceded any hopeful who scored under 200 stamps out of the most extreme 400 imprints .
" This means at least 50 for every penny . This remaining parts our position as an establishment seeking to be world - class. The truth is that lone around four different colleges in the nation have such exclusive expectation . To that degree , separated from being the most established , we are a world class university in the nation in any event judging by the nature of our admissions . ""
Olayinka , however , lauded the choice of the Federal Government to re - present the post - UTME test and excused the officeholder JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede , from the cancelation of the test two sessions prior.
" It is satisfying to take note of that the Honorable Minister of Education , Mallam Adamu , who led the meeting , apologized openly to cancel the post - UTME screening a year ago .
" in actuality , colleges are presently permitted to lead the test utilizing modalities endorsed by the Senate of every foundation .
" To be reasonable for the occupant Registrar of JAMB , he was not the Registrar when the arrangement somersault of scratching off the post - UTME test was made a year ago . As unequivocally peddled by us at each open door , for UI , the need to concede the best confirmation searchers is the essential inspiration for the test and not cash, despite the fact that we don't imagine that you can run any university so legitimately called without stores . "
Addressing one of our journalists on Thursday , the Vice-Chancellor , Tai Solarin University of Education , Ogun State , Prof. Oluyemisi Obilade, said that the onus would at last fall on guardians and businesses of work to choose " between a first - class graduate of a university which takes 120 as its cut - off stamp or one that takes 180 as its cut - off check . ""
Obilade, who said that TASUED could never go underneath 180 , demanded that a considerable lot of the VCs at the Combined Policy Meeting amid which the 120 benchmark choice was made , said they would not go beneath 180 .
She said , " But a few colleges picked 120 at the meeting . What the JAMB has done is to exchange control back to the Senate of colleges to choose their cut - off imprints . What I can let you know is that numerous state funded colleges and even private colleges won't go underneath 200. We were informed that a few colleges were doing what they called " under the table affirmation " and afterward return to JAMB following four years for regularization.
" TASUED won't go beneath 180 , not under my supervision . Indeed, even in the United States , there is the thing that we call Ivy League colleges , and there are those you can call " Next Level Universities . " There are additionally those that are named junior colleges . At the meeting , the result is that colleges have been given the opportunity to choose . It is not general enactment and it is not official on everyone . ""
Talking with writers in Ibadan , the Chairman of ASUU at the University of Ibadan , Dr . Deji Omole, said it was the fantasy of the present government to pulverize instruction in the nation .
He said , " Rather than endorsing the distinguished colleges that conceded more than 17 , 000 understudies illicitly , the JAMB enlistment center essentially regularized wrongdoing and brought down cut - off imprints to support the interests of the companions of government who claim private colleges and are never going to budge on annihilating state funded instruction . "
Omole said it was indispensable for JAMB to be rejected to spare the country " s training and its future . He said the board had outlasted its helpfulness and that forthcoming understudies ought to apply straightforwardly to colleges of their decision for confirmation.
He said , " Where are the understudies that the JAMB enlistment center said entered colleges unlawfully ? Which colleges conceded them? On the off chance that 30 for every penny did not take JAMB and discovered their way into the university framework , is that not defilement and a message that JAMB is not critical any longer ? What authorize did the individuals who did the illicit thing get other than regularization of illicitness .
" We are watching in light of the fact that well before now we have said that JAMB has outlasted its helpfulness . Give the colleges a chance to set their one of a kind norms and the individuals who are qualified can come in . Scoring 120 out of 400 imprints is 30 for every penny. Indeed, even in those days , 40 for every penny was reviewed as pass . In any case, now JAMB said with F9 which is scoring 30 for each penny you can be conceded.
" They intentionally need to devastate instruction . Notwithstanding for polytechnic , 100 imprints is 25 for each penny . It is pitiful. What's more, that is the place we are in Nigeria . They need to crush state funded training no matter what. This is not setting standard for instruction in Nigeria . It is simply settling for less and burrowing grave for the future . This is the reason ASUU is right now on the battle to impact the legislature to do the needful for training in Nigeria . "
Likewise , the Dean of Students Affairs , Federal University of Technology , Akure, Prof . Kayode Alese , who talked for the benefit of FUTA administration , said that the establishment would soon uncover its cut - off check .
" However, I can guarantee you that FUTA has never gone as low as 120. It has never happened and it will never happen , " he said .
Alese included, " Having represented the university , my genuine belief is that the 120 cut - off check won't increase the value of our instruction framework . The Federal Government has quite recently expanded the pass check from 40 to 45 in colleges . This means you should score no less than 45 for you to pass any course . We have enough hopefuls and yes you may endeavor to expand get to yet tertiary training ought to be for the individuals who have the capacity . ""
Additionally , the Vice-Chancellor , Obafemi Awolowo University , Prof. Tope Ogunmodede, said the organization would not concede any applicant with 120 UTME score .
He said , "Customarily , OAU has never conceded understudies who scored beneath 200 in the UTME . For us , we are adhering to 200 . The base benchmark is 120 however you can go higher than that . I expect that an establishment ought to have the capacity to decide the nature of its graduates in light of the fact that there are interior exams . What has been done is to give a breathing space to colleges to choose their cut - off imprints . "
Then , the National Association of Nigerian Students has portrayed the lessening of the cut - off imprints for induction into tertiary establishments as " a gross removal of need and a pointless activity . "
The association said that the diminishment by JAMB , from 180 for colleges and 165 polytechnics , to 120 and 100 individually for the 2017 UTME , would mean a shocking result later on .
The President of NANS , Chinonso Obasi, in an announcement on Thursday , debilitated that the choice would be opposed if JAMB declined to hold fast to business as usual .
He said , " As basic partners in the instructive division , NANS will energetically oppose the survey and approach government to keep up business as usual and attempt to lead a similar report and investigation of strategies from different climes that help useful learning and generation of youngsters that can contend with their companions all around .
"Indeed, even with the present status , the general wonder is that Nigerian graduates are not employable. The settling for what is most convenient option will mean a tragic result later on by producing youngsters who can't fit into the requests and desires of the 21 st century . ""
As per him , since the 21 st century is being driven by advancement and aggressiveness , bringing down the section level into tertiary organizations would just further add to decreasing the efficiency and pinnacle execution of youngsters looking for entrance into the nation " s higher foundations of learning .
However , the Vice - Chancellor of the Christopher University , Ogun State , Prof. Friday Ndubuisi , said the new confirmation benchmark would have no negative ramifications on the nature of training .
He said , " This is not an inconvenience . The cut - off check is a base benchmark for confirmation . This thought of taking the UTME consistently without getting confirmation is stressing . Around 1 . 6 million applicants sat for the examination this year and around 500 , 000 will be conceded for the most part due to the cut - off check . Most colleges won't go underneath 200, however with five credits acquired in two sittings, a man ought to be met all requirements for affirmation . This is , however , not a burden. Colleges still get the opportunity to settle on whom to a
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