Lowering of standards for admission into varsities: The role of JAMB, NUC and the Senate (2)
LAST week I began an examination of the reasons for the drop in the standard for admission into Nigerian Universities with a focus on the role played by the Joint Admissions Regulation Board and how overtime, Universities began to notice a general deficiency in candidates admitted through the examinations conducted by the body. As I will later discuss, several factors, some of which were directly traceable to JAMB itself, were responsible for this development. However it cannot be denied that certain other factors also contributed to the decline in the quality of students admitted into the Universities.
JAMB releases 1,048,914 results, extends registration, vows to eliminate fingers print in 2018
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, yesterday in Lagos said that out of the 1,648,429 million candidates writing the ongoing UTME, the results of 1,048,914 have been released.
NSCDC nabs candidate with gun at JAMB centre in Nasarawa state
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Nasarawa State has arrested a 21-year-old suspected candidate for being in possession of firearms in one of the centres of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in the state.
Rights lawyer sues JAMB over alleged extortion of 2017 UTME candidates
—A human rights lawyer based in Awka, Anambra state, Francis Gozie Moneke, has dragged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, the state capital, for allegedly extorting and grossly violating the fundamental human rights of JAMB candidates who registered for the 2017 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME.
1.14m candidates sat for UTME in 4 days – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has conducted Computer Based Test (CBT) for 1,144,198 candidates since the test began on Saturday.
JAMB: Students buy fake UTME questions for N200,000 – Oloyede
THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the result of the Computer Based Test of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for the 57,000 candidates that wrote the examination on Saturday.
