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The registrar of the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq
Oloyede, has said that tertiary institutions in the
country have been unable to fill 70% of their
admission quota in the last five years.
Oloyede made the statement on Wednesday,
November 9, in Abuja during a visit from the
Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and
Tertiary Education Fund, led by its Chairman,
Senator Jibrin Barau , Punch reports.
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According to the reports, the organisation
blamed the inability to fill the quota on the
Federal Government's insistence that institutions
comply with uniformity of cut-off marks » .
Punch reports that Oloyede said the adoption of
180 as the cut-off mark for admission into
tertiary institutions has continued to frustrate
candidates, who may be qualified but have lesser
cut-off points.
Oloyede said that tertiary institutions should be
allowed to decide on their cut-off points based
on the number of candidates who applied to the
institution for admission.
Oloyede said, “Every year, we do not meet 70 per
cent of the quota, contrary to what people think
that there are more people than the existing places.
We have in the last five years not filled 70 per cent
of the quota. We need to ask a question: why? The
simple answer is a mismatch.
“I can say it without any doubt that it has never
been obeyed. It is only obeyed on papers. When
you talk about the practice of it, there are
hundreds of people in our universities,
polytechnics and colleges of education that have
not gone through JAMB.
“The reason is that we are setting standards that
cannot be obeyed. They will now go through the
back door and recruit people with 160, 150, 140
and some who did not take JAMB at all because
you have made 180 the minimum.
“I went to colleges of education in Kano and
Jigawa; all the institutions, when I toured the place
to have a first-hand information, they told me:
‘look, we know you; you will say obey the rules.
This is the rule, the rule cannot be obeyed’.
“Why? If you obey 180, 70 per cent of our Colleges
of Education will be out of duty because they will
have no student. What they do is that they recruit
with 140, 130 and they just say ‘let JAMB be doing
what JAMB is doing.”
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Earlier, Oloyede lamented that inadequate
funding is posing a threat to the conduct »
of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,
UTME.
He also said that extending the exams validity
would do more harm than good and that many
things had to be considered before a decision
can be reached.

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