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Eight universities may deny 143, 000 placements

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Worsening infrastructural challenge, regulatory conflict between the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) and universities, inadequate teaching aids and unavailability of adequate manpower, among others, would join forces to deny over 143, 000 applicants placement in eight universities in the ongoing 2017/2018 academic session.

The scenario, which could get worse, is a confirmation of the fears raised last week by the National Universities Commission (NUC), that an admission crisis was inevitable in the country.

Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, while appearing before the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) last Wednesday, informed that only about 30 per cent of the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2017 would be offered admission, even as he pointed out that there was a regulatory conflict between the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board and the universities offering admission to candidates.

While stressing that an admission crisis was inevitable owing to the limited admission spaces in tertiary institutions, he explained that out of about 1.7 million candidates, just about half a million can be admitted into the country’s universities, adding that unless there is expansion, there will be admission crisis in this country.

However, checks by The Guardian reveal that of the 178, 052 candidates, who sat for post UTME in eight institutions, only 34, 104 stand a chance of being offered admission. The universities cited lack of infrastructure, teaching and learning tools to cater for the large number of students, as some of the reasons for their inability to admit more than 3, 500 students per school.

The Guardian, October 29, 2017

 

 

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