Wednesday, 10 January 2018

POST UTME SHOULD REMAIN SCRAPED



Greed indeed has stuck in the nerves of many Nigerians and requires series of surgery to uproot. Tertiary institutions in Nigeria have not yet overcome their loss since the scraping of Post UTME in the school system, as they no longer have the opportunity to extort money from the helpless candidates seeking admission. To make up for their loss, it is obvious they are exploring other possible means of filling their pockets without thinking of the welfare of their victims.

Recently, the reports has it that The federal government issued queries to 42 universities that were discovered to have charged more than the N2,000 instructed by the education ministry to conduct the 2017 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. The reports had it that this was revealed by the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede at a stakeholders’ meeting on the 2018 UTME in Abuja.

According to Oloyede, the Education Minister Adamu Adamu ordered that the excess should be returned to the affected candidates while the excess from those candidates who could not be traced should be paid to a non-religious orphanage.

Why the payment of N2000 in the first place just to check certificates after paying for Jamb, or have they succeeded in bringing back the scraped Post UTME again? Why does it seem like getting admission abroad is now easier for Nigerians than getting it in Nigeria? Nigeria should fix its educational structure once and for all and make it work. The idea of introducing series of educational policies is not the best because if we cannot make the former to work then that same problem that affected the former structure will also affect the later. There is no magic.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

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