The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has explained that the decision
by stakeholders in the education sector to reduce tertiary institutions’
admission cut-off points, beginning with the 2017 academic calendar, was to
stop the quest for foreign education by Nigerians.
It also said the cut-off marks being condemned by the public, like in previous
cases, were never strictly followed by most institutions.
The
board, which queried the continuous controversies arising from the
stakeholders’ action, blamed rising quest for foreign education to what it
called “our policies and attitude to national values and deep concern for
realistic benchmarks for national development.
Noting
that such and so many other poorly thought out policies have pushed frustrated
candidates out of the country, JAMB vowed to press ahead with the current
admission benchmark, stressing that it would not be deterred to do what was
right for the country.
JAMB,
in a statement by its Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the education
sector was at its retrogressive stage because many were afraid to say the truth
for fear of being condemned.
According to the
statement, it is obvious that the quest to go abroad for foreign education is
not as a result of shortage of spaces or standard given some of the
institutions attended by these Nigerians but partly due to some policies and
attitude to national values and deep con
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