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CUT-OFF MARK: NANS replies JAMB, says your claims ridiculous

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CUT-OFF MARK: NANS replies JAMB, says your claims ridiculous

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Wednesday called on the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stop trying to justify a very unpopular policy because Nigerian Students have vowed to resist it.

While reacting to a statement by JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, NANS President, Comrade Chinonso Obasi described as ridiculous, JAMB’s claim that the review of cut off points was to stop the quest for foreign education.

Obasi stated that evidence has shown that the worst student in Nigeria has turned out to be the best student abroad because of the enabling educational policies, teaching facilities, quality of teachers and consistency in study time.

Read also: JAMB and the politics of cut-off marks

According to Obasi, students’ ability to learn and come out with outstanding performance is a function of the enabling environment that is deliberately created by responsible and responsive policies like what is obtained abroad and not retroactive and retrogressive policies like what JAMB is trying to push.

Obasi stated that it is only the children of the rich that school abroad and so JAMB is insulating them because they cannot compete with the children of the poor who patronize indigenous tertiary institutions.

The NANS President therefore called on JAMB to work with the stakeholders to explore and dins lasting solutions to the mirage of challenges facing the Nigerian educational sector that would facilitate effective and efficient learning rather than embarking on an inglorious exercise of reviewing cut off marks.

Obasi insisted that at a time that the nation should be thinking of improving the prospects of competitive learning in line with the dictates of contemporary times, JAMB is looking at lowering standards to encourage indolence and ineptitude.

According to him, JAMB’s position is certainly not in the interest of the growth of education in the country and the future of young people in the country.

 

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