The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, JAMB, has revealed how the cut off marks were fixed for
higher institutions.
It said contrary to insinuations
that it fixed the Tuesday’s tertiary institutions’ minimum admission cut-off
marks, it was rather a collective decision of stakeholders in the education
sector.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq
Oloyede, spoke to reporters yesterday, insisting that stakeholders in the
sector unanimously agreed that the minimum cut-off marks for the university
degree for the 2017 academic year be put at 120, lower than the previous years,
which stood at 180.
He allayed fears that the
development might further lower Nigeria’s education standard.
He stated that besides the board
recommending cut-off marks for universities, polytechnics and colleges of
education as well as monotechnics, individual institutions could raise their
admission benchmark higher but not above 180 and below 120 for universities.
He said, “With this decision,
universities are not to go below the minimum 120 cut-off points adopted by the
meeting for admissions.
“What JAMB did was a
recommendation, we only determined the minimum, whatever the various
institutions determine as their admission cut-off mark is their decisions.
“The Senate and academic boards
of universities should be allowed to determine their cut-off marks.“
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