Thursday, 9 June 2016

LATEST ON UTME


 

 Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola, has said that Nigerian colleges digressed from the underlying understanding NUC had with Vice-Chancellors in 2004 when it introduced  post-UTME to screen applicants on oral meeting and composed exposition. Prof.
Okebukola He additionally said that the present position as uncovered to him by the Vice-Chancellors, after their meeting with Malam Adamu last Thursday, was that the Minister had coordinated that colleges ought to no more lead the same sort of test as JAMB, yet ought to be  allowed to further subject contender to screening to meet their nearby characteristics. Okebukola, who talked solely with the press deplored that colleges had following strayed from the underlying understanding of post-UTME, taking note of that the 2004 model had a screening part which was concurred with all bad habit chancellors to be through oral meeting and article which JAMB appraisal did not cover. The previous NUC Scribe communicated euphoria in the scrapping of post-UTME, including that it now took the colleges framework back to the first model of post-UME which NUC started in 2004 while he  served as Executive Secretary. While expounding on purposes behind the presentation of  post-UTME in 2004, he clarified that the NUC and the bad habit chancellors  found that like never before some time recently, they expected to concede into the colleges, auxiliary school leavers, from the huge pool, including the individuals who have no less than two qualities. The principal trademark, he noted, was to guarantee that affirmation seekers accomplished least intellectual fitness in the applicable subjects in the control they wished to study; and second to test their  skill in composed and oral English, basic deduction and capacity to present thoughts in consistent arrangement befitting of students in Africa's most-extensive and very much respected college

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