Varsity Admission: JAMB Pegs Cut Off Mark At 180

Nyesom Wike

Nyesom Wike

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, as well as the Federal Government have pegged the cutoff mark for admission into Nigerian universities at 180 in the new academic session, 2014/2015.

The decision was taken at the 5th Combined Policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions in Abuja on Tuesday.

At the event which was held at the National Universities Commission, NUC, headquarters, the cutoff mark for admission into Polytechnics and Colleges of Education was also pegged at 150.

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Also during the meeting, Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, advised tertiary institutions to fully utilise their admission quotas in order to reduce the teeming number of qualified candidates who could not gain admission every year.

He said it was a disservice to the Nigerian child for him not to be admitted even though he was qualified for admission due to the failure of the tertiary institutions to fully utilise their admission quotas.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, who was also at the meeting, expressed his unhappiness over the failure of Nigeria’s education system to embrace technical education which is the bedrock of technological advancement of any nation.

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