Name: Alechenu David
Program Analyst for Development in Practice and Gender Entrepreneurial Initiatives (DiPGEI) A development consultant organization that seeks to proffer innovative solutions that seeks to address gender inequality and social injustice in Nigeria.
My take on the jamb cut off: starting with a question: of what use is reducing a cut off mark after the examination?
The aim of having a bench mark before the examination is to encourage students to prepare, read well and be serious with education. Bringing it down after the examination is total absurdity.
Let’s say for instance, that the excuse for bringing down the cut off is to get more people to school: it will interest you to know that the universities and tertiary institutions in Nigeria can only take not more than 40% of people who passed jamb.
I would like to say at this point that the process is a bunch of rubbish on the part of Jamb and it’s administration. I thought at this point we should be moving forward and not backwards?.
Sorry to say, that the govt at this point is trying to politicize the educational sector by bringing down the jamb score making it posible for more people to qualify for admission into universities with little or no efforts and the govt in turn using that as a yardstick to approve more Universities that are half baked and expect our human resources to grow in knowledge capacities.
At this point in time in Nigeria: knowing that we have rich human resources, the best we can do for ourselves is to look to improving ourselves in knowledge and they is no other sector to do this than the education sector. Actors in govt especially in the education sector, in their wisdom at this point should drop all interests and look to the interests of the common people.
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