We Support 3 years JAMB Result Validity - NAN

1>>The Chairman of Kwara Chapter of National Association of
Nigerian Students, Mr. Tajudeen Habeeb, has lauded JAMB
for its decision on the three-year validity of Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination results.
Habeeb said in Ilorin on Tuesday that this would afford
students the opportunity to save cost and time for writing
another examination for which they had no certainty of
passing.
He said, “The proposed three-year validity of JAMB
examination results due to be passed by the legislature is
indeed a right decision at the right time.”
The NANS chairman said that admission into universities,
polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education had
its attendant hindrances since capacity of institutions were
limited.
He said, “On this note, I want to emphatically and
unequivocally say that the three-year validity for JAMB
results is a good and right decision.”
He, however, said that the capacity of existing institutions of
higher learning was being over stretched and called for the
establishment of more institutions across the country.
He said, “In a situation whereby over 100,000 students apply
for admission into a university and 75,000 pass and meet
the required cut-off mark, but the university only has
capacity for 8,000 students, what will be the fate of the
others?
“In three years, only 24,000 students will be admitted; that is
about 33 per cent of the total number of applicants that
passed.”
Habeeb said that the number would be adding up with no
space to accommodate the remaining 67 per cent or other
secondary school leavers who passed other types of
examinations in their bid to get into higher institutions.
(NAN)