FG’s exclusive right to JAMB a mistake – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that granting Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) the exclusive right to admit students into tertiary institutions is a mistake.

The ASUU president, Biodun Ogunyemi in Abuja on Monday, July 18, said the ban on Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation examination was uncalled for.
Ogunyemi said the mistake made by the Nigerian government by granting JAMB the right to admit students into universities will hunt Nigeria sooner or later.

He said the union believe that the challenges faced by the Post-UTME is not one that cannot be tackled.
Listing the challenges, Ogunyemi said various recommendations should be adopted by the federal government to ensure the re-implementation of Post-UTME into the education system.

To curtail exploitation of parents and candidates, government can improve funding to universities and other tertiary institutions.

“Total implementation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement especially the funding for the revitalization and other service–related conditions like payment of staff entitlements, registration of Nigerian Universities Pension Management Committee,” he said.

The union also recommended a review of the validity period of UTME or its registrations fees from one to three years to reduce exploitation by JAMB and ensure fairness to candidates.

“ASUU shall never accept policies which violates university autonomy. This is a call to all well-meaning Nigerians to intervene to avert a looming crisis in the Nigerian university system.

Recently, the federal government through the minister of education Adamu Adamu cancelled the Post-UTME usually conducted by tertiary institutions for students who have score 180 and above in JAMB.

Also, just yesterday, Adamu also confirmed the cancellation of National Examination Council common entrance examination usually written by pupils seeking admission into federal government colleges in Nigeria.

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