According to a statement issued by its chairman, Dr. Deji Omole, the decision adds no gain to the Nigerian educational system and is ill-timed as FG currently owes public universities about N1bn intervention fund.
He said the pronouncements by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu had eroded the autonomy of university in admission of students.
The, “autocratic pronouncement” was a non issue when compared with fundamental issue of funding universities and meeting ASUU-FGN 2009 agreements, he said.
Omole also flayed Education Minister Adamu Adamu. He said it was obvious the Minister was oblivious of extant university autonomy granted the Senate of Nigerian Universities to determine the procedures for the conduct of admission and regulate admission of its students.
“A Nigerian Minister of Education must make pronouncement based on sound academic research not on road-side talk which queries his very essence of being appointed as a Minister,” the union leader said.
He reiterated that JAMB be decentralized since it lacked the ability to conduct credible and dependable examination upon which credible universities like University of Ibadan can rely.
Making reference to a research conducted by Professor Afolabi Bamgboye in the University of Ibadan, he stressed that the findings revealed that higher JAMB scores have negative relationship with the performances of students at 100 university degree examinations.
According to Omole, JAMB has outlived its credibility as indicated in last examination exercise it conducted where candidates who did not finish examinations or had issues with their Computer Based Test were awarded extra 40 marks arbitrarily without justifications.
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You want to continue exploiting the masses, continue the test without fees. Money money academicians, school for rich only!
ReplyDeleteAll of this professors went through JAMB.
ReplyDeleteThey are just enriching their pocket to make the masses suffer.
How many did they admitted on merit with the post UTME?
Some people will do worst if they are the President of this country
Why this ranting? If you know post UME is not for making money but for checks and balances, then let it be free of charge. I am sure you gain admission to the university without post UME.
ReplyDeleteIf JAMB has not credibility as you claimed, then the universities should work with JAMB to make it more credible. STOP EXTORTING STUDENTS
If post ume becomes free of charge,how will cost of logistics be covered..
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