The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has warned that any attempt to
scrap the post-Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE)
screening examinations being conducted by universities across the
country would drag the education sector backward.
MURIC,
in a message signed by its director, Dr Is-haq Akintola, stated that
the universities were keen on getting the best students into their
institutions and therefore urged the National Assembly to listen to the
universities.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), the body said, was already over-pampered and over-bloated.
"It has outlived both its relevance and usefulness. The staff in JAMB bears no sense of belonging to any university. They have nothing at stake so they can stomach corruption in the system.
"In view of the fact that education is the indispensable launch-pad for economic growth, sound health and technological breakthrough of any nation, we, as a people, cannot afford to ignore the need for quality control as an essential roadmap to qualitative education," the group said.
The body noted that initially, JAMB was solely responsible for the conduct of entrance examinations into Nigerian universities, a role it played effectively.
"But unhealthy developments soon crept in as allegations of massive fraud were made regarding JAMB’s activities. Candidates' marks were allegedly swapped. Students who were known to be brilliant got low marks while average and dull students received scandalously high marks. Allegations of JAMB officials selling marks were rife. Thugs and riff-raffs found their ways into the universities so long as they (or their parents) had the money to throw around.
"The fallout of this embarrassing situation was the poor performance of students in the university. It led to idleness, absenteeism and cultism among students. Undergraduates could not write simple letters.
"Their spoken English became the poorest in the West-African sub-region. The standard of education fell to an all time low and stakeholders were quick to finger JAMB as the main culprit. It was discovered that admission was being offered by JAMB to candidates who did not merit it in any way.
As a corollary to this, graduates of Nigerian universities could no longer perform the duties expected of them.
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Cross section of Muslims at a book launch in abuja, recently.
"It has outlived both its relevance and usefulness. The staff in JAMB bears no sense of belonging to any university. They have nothing at stake so they can stomach corruption in the system.
"In view of the fact that education is the indispensable launch-pad for economic growth, sound health and technological breakthrough of any nation, we, as a people, cannot afford to ignore the need for quality control as an essential roadmap to qualitative education," the group said.
The body noted that initially, JAMB was solely responsible for the conduct of entrance examinations into Nigerian universities, a role it played effectively.
"But unhealthy developments soon crept in as allegations of massive fraud were made regarding JAMB’s activities. Candidates' marks were allegedly swapped. Students who were known to be brilliant got low marks while average and dull students received scandalously high marks. Allegations of JAMB officials selling marks were rife. Thugs and riff-raffs found their ways into the universities so long as they (or their parents) had the money to throw around.
"The fallout of this embarrassing situation was the poor performance of students in the university. It led to idleness, absenteeism and cultism among students. Undergraduates could not write simple letters.
"Their spoken English became the poorest in the West-African sub-region. The standard of education fell to an all time low and stakeholders were quick to finger JAMB as the main culprit. It was discovered that admission was being offered by JAMB to candidates who did not merit it in any way.
As a corollary to this, graduates of Nigerian universities could no longer perform the duties expected of them.
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