Opinion

WHY JAMB ?

By Jamil Zakari 

A retired renown professor of education, who was at one time three times vice chancellor of universities in Nigeria and overseas and who once chaired the Board has once shared his thoughts with me on this JAMB body of thing.

I honestly share his thoughts to the effect that JAMB has outlived its usefulness.

I can't lay my fingers on anything new that the Board is doing that individual tertiary institutions cannot, or are not already doing. The same maths, English and other o'level subjects that NECO, WAEC, NAPTEB and other exams bodies are doing is what JAMB is replicating.

The difference is that while the former are grading the same subjects on numerals A, B, C the later is grading its own on figures 50,60, 70 etc. Add that to post UTME tests  that is now the vogue in all tertiary institutions, and you will see the picture clearly as to why the body should simply be scrapped.

So, other than revenue generation and the facade of centralised entry admission requirements, candidates and parents are only subjected to multiple 'taxations' and repeated stresses for which in the end it is the same individual institutions that call the shots on who gets admitted or not.

Since that is the case, why then shouldn't the institutions be given the free hand to simply admit candidates based on their individual criteria and standards like everywhere else in the world?

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