Monday, 28 August 2017

JAMB explain why admission cut-off points was done



  

   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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