FG SCRAPS POST UTME

 HISTORY AND BAN OF UTME EXAMS IN NIGERIA BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Today on this blog, we will examine the ban placed on Post University Tetiary Matriculation Examination in Nigeria's institutions of higher learning. The Federal Government pronounced the ban yesterday. But do you think it is a wise decision to ban The post UTME Exams? Share your opinion on this blog, after reading the following write-up.
The Federal government of Nigeria, through its Ministry of Education in 2005, introduced the post UTME Exams into the Nation's institutions of higher learning. A scholar captured the history of the introduction as follows:
Amatareotubo (2006) portrays how the central legislature of Nigeria presented the strategy of Post-JAMB screening by colleges in 2005, through the Minister of Education, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji. This arrangement made it required for every single tertiary organization to screen hopefuls after their JAMB results and before giving affirmation. Applicants with a score of 200 or more would be shortlisted by JAMB and their names and scores sent to their colleges of decision which would screen again utilizing fitness tests, oral meetings, or significantly another examination. Obaji declares that some competitors scored 280 or more in JAMB however couldn't score 20 percent in the post-JAMB examination, trusting that those understudies more likely than not undermined their JAMB examinations and couldn't pass the Post-JAMB examination on the grounds that there was no real way to swindle Just yesterday however, the Federal Government placed a ban on the UTME Exams.

Why FG scrapped post UTME tests
The Federal Government has scrapped post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, as a pre-condition to picking up entrance into institutions of higher learning in the nation. The legislature and partners in instruction division additionally pegged 180 as the benchmark for 2016 induction into colleges, polytechnics and schools of training to enhance the nature of training in Nigeria. These choices were arrived at, at the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher establishments in Nigeria. The Minister of Education , Malam Adamu Adamu,while pronouncing open the meeting, said subsequent to the national government and partners had trust in the examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriulation Board, JAMB, there was no requirement for different examinations to be led by colleges after JAMB exams. He said: "Similarly as I am concerned, the country has trust in what JAMB is doing, the colleges ought not hold another examinations and if the colleges have any  against JAMB, let them bring it and afterward we address it. ''In any case, if JAMB is sufficiently qualified to direct tests and they have held the test, then there will be no compelling reason to hold another test for understudies to pick up confirmation. "The service expects that all applicants given confirmation must be from JAMB. be that as it may, JAMB must quit issuing confirmation letters, JAMB ought to reach organizations before offering admission to understudies. ''The end date is November 30th and no college ought to surpass its affirmation limit and any tertiary foundation that doesn't take after the tenet, the service would begin endorsing them. ''Establishments ought to quit conceding understudies into un-licensed courses in their organizations. The foundations ought to quit composing JAMB to build their portions since JAMB can't do that." The body additionally said organizations ought to quit asking JAMB to expand their standards as there were pertinent offices to do as such. Adamu additionally reminded the partners that the criteria for confirmation was still in power, and requested that the establishments hold fast to it. "Legitimacy is 45%, catchment territory 35% and instructive improvement in less created states 20%, this is for elected colleges and for states colleges, merit 40%, catchment 40 % and less created neighborhood governments get 20%,'' he said. The Minister likewise asked the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board to stop additional charges on a few classes of changes on confirmations, for example, the change obviously, change of school and others. The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, while talking with writers after the meeting, said organizations were allowed to go over the 180 benchmark. "180 benchmark is even, nobody will go beneath it this year. Colleges can go above it. This year, we have all that anyone could need hopefuls on the grounds that more than 1.2 million competitors scored above 180, so we have enough applicants this year. "There won't be any composed post-UTME yet they would screen the competitors. It is a vital thing to screen the hopefuls. ''We concur and the Minister of Education likewise concurs yet the issue of taking another examination is no more going to happen," he said.
Researchers have contended for and against the Post-Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) in Nigerian colleges. Sobechi (2008) cites the Vice-Chancellor of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Professor Fidelis Ogah, as saying that he had declined to bow to weight to direct Post-UME tests in light of the fact that most organizations have swung it to a goldmine. Ogah charged that most Nigerian colleges that lead Post-UME do as such fundamentally to wring cash from rich guardians, whose youngsters couldn't be conceded utilizing JAMB results. Ogah expressed that he had disregarded weight to direct the test, calling attention to that in the event that he needed trust in the believability of JAMB, he would need trust in a post-UME examination too.

Essentially, amid the 33rd and 34th assembly service of the University of Benin, President Musa Yar'Adua of Nigeria, through the Director of Tertiary Education in the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Emmanuel Okon, commented that the PUME might be dropped if objections against its behavior by understudies, guardians, and watchmen continue (Aliu 2008).

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the statutory body doled out to lead confirmation examinations, and the National Universities Commission (NUC) have been coordinated to streamline Post-UME screening with a specific end goal to maintain a strategic distance from government mediation and the end of Post-UME screening. The JAMB Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, likewise regretted that colleges have transformed the UME screening into a cash making wander, as reported by Badmus and Idoko (2008). The House of Representatives Committee on Education in their oversight visits to instructive offices discovered that colleges had transformed the screening of understudies looking for entrance into a cash making wander. To stem the pattern, the Chairman of the Committee, Honorable Farouk Lawan, recommended the need to assemble a partners' conference on the issue.
As the NUC started the accreditation of colleges in 2009, Professor Peter Okebukola, the quick past Executive Secretary of NUC and an individual from the board set to study college organization, said that institutional accreditation would go before course accreditation in Nigerian colleges, taking note of that Nigeria, not at all like the US, Europe, and Asia, just completed course accreditation without authorizing the establishments offering these projects (Makinde 2008).

Okebukola expressed that this practice was one of the elements in charge of the nature of items turned out of the country's tertiary foundations. He clarified that institutional accreditation would consider the nature of understudies being conceded, staff, offices, learning environment, and the college administration. Okebukola focused on the requirement for graduates who are broadly significant and all inclusive aggressive.

A few understudies utilize unscrupulous intends to pass JAMB on their first endeavor, while others do nothing of the kind. Clarence Peters expresses that, "when I completed Secondary School, I sat for JAMB since we had some money related troubles furthermore to satisfy all uprightness, and, thankfully, I fizzled" Lawal (2008). Ogunleye (2008) reports that the Wesley University of Science and Technology (WUSTO), built up by the Methodist Church Nigeria (MCN), authorized by the Federal Government in May 2007, has directed its first UME screening. Oyedele (2008) cites the University of Ado Ekiti Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dipo Kolawole, a surely understood supporter of the post-UME test, as saying that "in the previous an understudy will score 289, naturally he comes in, yet with the Post-UME now, you find that such an understudy is scoring an extremely poor imprint. They can't compose. In the event that we seek sanitation of our instructive framework … it doesn't bode well for anyone to be against the post-UME. In the event that there are other implicit components to sanitize the confirmation procedure … it ought to be an appreciated thought.."

Makinde (2009) states that Professor Philip Abiodun, The Vice-Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, has attested that "two exams are not very numerous to sifter qualified applicants from the individuals who bamboozled to pass." He watched that in the wake of looking at the aftereffects of the two exams one would have the capacity to know who genuinely passed and who tricked. He noticed that while a few understudies scored high checks in JAMB, they scored low on the post-UME.
More scholars give reasons for the ban
 
Considering the reason for the ban, we can see that the major reason for the ban, was the exploitation of JAMB Students by Nigeria's institutions of higher learning, because, most times, these prospective students are made to pay huge sums of money, which is not properly accounted for by these institutions. Parents go through untold hardships, trying to secure admission for their children and wards. Others say it is a duplication of function between JAMB AND NIGERIAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING.The Federal government of Nigeria has given JAMB the mandate to conduct examinations for admission into Nigeria's Universities, Colleges and Polytecnics. Why then must these institutions conduct another exams after JAMB has done its own? 
What do you think about this? Do you think the Government made a wise decision? share your opinion on this blog.
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