Mr
Ike Onyechere, Chairman, Exam Ethics Marshals International (EEMI), an NGO, has
called for uniform cut-off mark for admissions into tertiary institutions in
the country.
Onyechere
made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday.
He
said the criteria for choosing candidates in educationally advantaged and
educationally disadvantaged states should be removed by the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB).
The
Chairman noted that candidates from educationally disadvantaged states usually
had lower cut-off marks than candidates from educationally advantaged states.
He
urged JAMB to look into the issue and make necessary adjustment
According
to him, every candidate seeking admission into Nigerian universities should be
made to gain admission with a uniform cut-off mark.
“
If you look at it, Akwa Ibom was carved out from Cross River and Akwa Ibom is
listed as educationally advantaged state while Cross River is catgorised as an
educationally disadvantaged state.
“In
other words, the candidates from Cross River will have a lower cut-off mark
than candidates from Akwa Ibom. For me, it doesn’t make sense.”
He
explained that most of the states listed as educationally disadvantaged had
more Federal Government institutions than states listed as educationally
advantaged.
“
Kaduna State has over 20 Federal Government educational institutions but it is
being categorised as educationally disadvantaged.
“So
those are the kind of anomalies that JAMB should remove and those are the kind
of things I am referring to as higher dynamics of malpractice.”
Onyechere
further called on JAMB to come up with policies that would give the youths
equal opportunity to access tertiary institutions in the country.
He
also said that accessing admission should not be slanted in favour and against
certain people in some areas of the country.
Onyechere
said that accessing admission would boost the quality of education in the
educationally disadvantaged states.
“All
those things should be removed. If you pass, you pass, so you don’t have to
water down the quality of education because you want to accommodate certain
people.”
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