The outgoing Vice Chancellor of
the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Rahamon Bello, has announced that only 8,000
applicants would secure admission in the institution in the 2017/2018 academic
session.
Bello said although 32,000
applicants to the university scored 200 marks and above in this year’s Unified
Tertiary matriculation examination (UTME), the school would only admit 8,000.
Bello whose tenure as vice
chancellor expires on November 11 explained that the aim was to promote
excellence.
“We know what goes on in our
public examinations. That is why we insist on candidates undertaking our post
UTME and scoring at least 40 per cent,’’ he said.
“We admit the best so that we can
produce the best,” he told newsmen on Thursday.
He said that the university held
75 inaugural lectures during his five-year tenure in an effort to promote
scholarship.
Speaking further, the professor
of chemical engineering, noted that the university had held a total of 374
inaugural lectures since its existence.
“They just don’t come and get
them; the process of becoming a professor in UNILAG is very tedious.
“We have peer review from inside
and outside and we have interview internally, so that at the end, you know why
you are promoted or why you are not,’’ he said.
Few days ago, the management of
the institution withdrew the admission list for candidates who have
chosen to study in the university during the 2017/2018 academic session over
alleged irregularities.
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