Just 30% UTME hopefuls can be admitted, says NUC

The National Universities Commission has said that restricted spaces for induction into Nigerian colleges can just oblige around 30 for each penny of the 1.7 million hopefuls who composed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2017.

The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, said this in Abuja while showing up before the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund on Wednesday.

He additionally noticed that there was an administrative clash between the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board and the colleges offering admission to hopefuls.

Rasheed said inferable from the constrained affirmation spaces in tertiary foundations, a confirmation emergency was unavoidable in the nation.

He stated, "Out of around 1.7 million competitors who took the UTME, it is just about a large portion of a million that can be conceded into our colleges. The emergency of affirmation in this nation is unavoidable. Unless we extend spaces, we should keep on having an affirmation emergency in this nation. Each examination has its own particular issue. We trust that the JAMB examination is trustworthy and every one of us working in the framework regard the aftereffects of the UTME.

"It isn't tied in with profiting for the colleges. Frame is an incredible guide, however you can't depend on it 100 for every penny. There is a need to additionally look at the contender for objectivity and to make the whole framework tenable."

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, in any case, said there was no contention between the board and the colleges.

Oloyede said the vast majority of the competitors who sat for its examination did not have the expected capabilities to pick up affirmation.

He stated, "It isn't genuine that we have 1.7 million applicants that are prepared to go into the Nigerian college framework. Out of the 1.7 million that took the UTME this year, not more than 30 for every penny of them have the five credits in their Senior School Certificate Examination required to go into the college.

"Around 80 for every penny of applicants at the purpose of sitting don't have the O'Level by any stretch of the imagination. They are anticipating comes about. So when we are building our hypotheses and examination, we should be extremely mindful. On the off chance that you score 400 more than 400 and don't have the O'Level, you can't come into the college."