The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has currently fixed the minimum score for candidates to secure admission into universities in Nigeria at 140.
The admissions board had additionally set the minimum cut-off marks of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education at 100.
JAMB had arrived at this decision at the 2023 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions currently taking place at the National Judicial Institute, Abuja, Nigeria.
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Board’s Registrar, had been the one to make the disclosure on Saturday, June 24.
It is discouraging that the Admissions Board keeps lowering the education bar in the country.
What could possibly be the need for the Admissions Board to decide on lowering the cut-off mark for entering higher institutions in the country?
Has the bar for education in Nigeria truly descended that low? Is this a testament to the quality of education the students are to receive in the various institutions?
Could it be because the youths have lost interest in pursuing education after attending secondary schools because of the ‘worship money’ culture in the society?
Or because of the high unemployment rate in the country for even the brilliant graduates across the nation?
There are so many questions that need to addressed. Simply announcing the cut-off mark for the various institutions is not enough.
JAMB needs to give reasons to it continuously lowering the cutoff mark for gaining admissions into Nigerian varsities.
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