Saturday 25 June 2016

Education Ministry To Meet VCs , Admission Officers , Others Over Post- UTME




The Federal Ministry of Education will convene a meeting with vice -chancellors, admission officers , and other stakeholders to discuss processes for the post - Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME ).

Dr Folashade Yemi - Esan , the Permanent Secretary , Federal Ministry of Education made this known while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN ) on Wednesday in Abuja . According to her , the meeting will hold next week.

The Minister of Education , Malam Adamu Adamu , had recently scrapped the post - UTME test “ As far as I am concerned , if the nation has confidence in what JAMB is doing , the universities should not be holding another examination.

“ If the universities have any complain against JAMB , let them bring it and then we address it .

“ But if JAMB is qualified enough to conduct tests and they have conducted test, then there will be no need to conduct another test for students to gain admission , ” Adamu had said .

According to Mrs Yemi - Esan, the minister had made a pronouncement which should be complied with .

“ The responsibility is now on us to give them guidelines and modalities on how to go about what the honourable minister has said .

“ There is no written directive but all the stakeholders were at that meeting where the minster said it openly.

“ There is going to be a meeting of the all the vice - chancellors and admission officers sometime next week to work our modalities , ” she said .

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