Federal Government has concluded arrangements to scrap the National Examination Council.
Plans have also been concluded to cancel the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination being conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board for applicants into the nation’s tertiary institutions.
JAMB will however not be scrapped.
The government’s decisions, which would be made public soon via a White Paper, are based on the recommendations of the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.
A government source told our correspondent that the decisions were part of the recommendations made by a White Paper Committee set up by the government on the Oronsaye report.
The source added that upon receipt of the latest report, President Goodluck Jonathan has been meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo and a few top government officials to take final decisions on it.
It was in one of such meetings held on Tuesday that the final decision was taken.
Under the new arrangement, the source said in place of UTME, authorities of all tertiary institutions would now be at liberty to conduct their entrance examinations as they had been doing for post-UTME.
JAMB will however serve as a clearing house.
“JAMB will now be a clearing house like Universities and Colleges Admissions Service in the UK. If somebody gains admission into three universities and holds down space, immediately such person picks his first choice, JAMB’s system will automatically free the remaining two slots for other applicants.
“JAMB will no longer conduct examinations but it will be setting the standard alongside the schools authorities,” the source said.
UCAS, which was established in 1993, is the British admission service for students applying to university and college, including post-16 education as of 2012. UCAS is primarily funded by students who pay a fee when they apply and a capitation fee from universities for each student they accept.
On NECO, the source said in arriving at the decision to scrap the examination body, the committee took into cognizance its huge facilities across the country.
But it was resolved that the West African Examination Council would absorb NECO’s members of staff and its facilities.
WAEC will also be empowered to conduct two Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations per year, one in January and the other probably in December.
Hitherto, only one November/December SSCE Examination is being conducted.
The May/June Senior Secondary Certificate Examination being organised by the examination body once in a year still stands.
The government source also said arrangements had been concluded to scrap the Public Complaint Commission, the National Poverty Eradication Programme and the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution among others.
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I think its ok this way.so that it will be easier for a common man.Do you know that nija aspiring students makes billions of naira for jamb and neco in a year.who suffers most? Common man
ReplyDeletepls cancel post jamb..
ReplyDeleteGud deal.thanks mr.president.
ReplyDeleteGood ideal
ReplyDeleteIts gonna be a fatal mistake , they want to give the universities too much power, they can't handle such power ,quality of education would spiral down! People wld get admitted via bribery
ReplyDeleteI don't think that these agencies on their own are the real problems, so scrapping them would achieve little or nothing. The real problem is Federal government's policy inconsistencies. Each regime seems happy experimenting with the future of Nigeria by their "trial and error" system. I won't be surprised if another regime comes tomorrow and "resurrect" the scrapped agencies. They scrapped HSC programme to introduce JAMB as means of gaining admissions into tertiary institutions. Now they are scrapping JAMB. What informed their decisions in the first place? They introduced 6-3-34 system of education. Not long after, they introduced 9-3-4. They are good at copying from, probably, USA or UK, but they are not copying right. Only God knows what next they will introduce. But remember that WAEC that is meant to take over (or absorbed) NECO is not wholly owned by Nigerian federal government. It is a regional examination body, and not national examination body. So think twice.
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A good and long overdue devpt.However expect major corruption in the "clearing house"! Those spaces that may arise,will definitely go to the highest bidder.That is what needs to be fixed urgently.
ReplyDeleteHm, what is Mr president trying to achieve? Complete university autonomy or what? Compromising NECO to WAEC? How do we explain this when matters become worse? Because education in Niga will be as good as going to market place to buy what ever u need. I do not agree with Mr president and his team of advisers.
ReplyDeletewhat happens to those currently holding NECO certificate
ReplyDeleteIf there is going to be any change in secondary and post-secondary education in Nigeria, especially, in the copy of foreign system of education, we need to start from the basic level- the history of education in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI think the system on ground is good but recommendations and implementations are not perfect. In the sense that, a government introduced NECO and UTME plus Post-UTME had its objectives and goals when introduced.
Lest we make Oronsaye report opaque and liquidated in the nearest future too-divorcing covenanted wife to marry a concubine.
We should stop wasting resources, and our problem is that we are too wise to maintain the standard that we cherish. We may stop improvising strange ideas, this is affecting our total system, particularly, education.
Enrich the high and mighty naija learn you lesson once
ReplyDeleteLet check for history of education in Nigeria before making change, lest we bring in system we do not even understand.
ReplyDeleteExperiments upon experiments...
ReplyDeleteMaster GEJ....
Ts well
Tell them my brother! After smoking enough horse shit, they look for ways to spread the disease to us. Whatever the case, corruption will still have the upper hand.
ReplyDeleteWhat I just see is a blind man on the wheel, driving us all to anarchy. A coward that turns away from real challenges and turns to horse shit reforms. If these horse shit tyrants would make such a swift decision on boko haram, their sponsors and other currupt leaders, Nigeria would be a better place for us all. There is no hope for Nigeria except corrupt leaders are where they belong, (dead or imprisoned) if they like, they can do all the restructuring they want, it will all amount to nothing as long as corrupt practices remain.
ReplyDeleteNigerian leaders and govt are good in copying from the western world, but the way corruption thrives and practiced here is it also the way its done over there? These so called idiots, animals in human skin and vagabons in power are just playing games with this country. How many of these so called policy fomulators have there children and wards in nigerian school? This is a fundamental qquestions...God bless naija.
ReplyDeleteThe report is not credible and should be disregarded. WAEC is not owned by Nigeria alone, how can NECO staff be absorbed by an organization jointly owned by English speaking West African countries?
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