JAMB- VC says UTME exams should be conducted bi- annually

The Vice-Chancellor of Crawford University,
Igbesa, Ogun State, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi, has urged
the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB, to conduct the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination UTME twice a year.
The VC said this on Wednesday, November 9,
while leading a team from Crawford University on
a courtesy visit to The Punch Place, the
corporate headquarters of PUNCH Nigeria
Limited along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
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Ajayi suggested this move over what he
describes as the ill-informed decision of the
Senate to extend the validity of results » from
one to three years.
He said that this would boost the chances of
candidates, adding that extending the validity of
the UTME results would destroy the spirit of
academic excellence among Nigerian students.
“I hope the extension of the UTME results will not
defeat the spirit of academic excellence. The
Senate was not well advised. And that was why
JAMB rejected it because the Senate did not carry
it along. Rather than extend the validity of the
UTME results, what I will suggest is that JAMB
should run exams more than once in a year, may
be twice or thrice to give more candidates the
opportunity of getting admission,” Ajayi said.
He also noted that over a million candidates who
were qualified for admission would not be
admitted this year due to lack of space in the
universities.
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Ajayi asked that government universities be
strengthened in terms of infrastructure and
manpower as well as licensing of more private
varsities.

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