The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Wednesday, kicked against the Federal Government’s directive for tertiary institutions to scrap the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Post-UTME, for admission of candidates for the 2016/2017 academic session, saying the quality of tertiary education in the country could improve if the institutions are allowed to regulate their students admission process.


ASUU President, Comrade Biodun Ogunyemi, said such freedom would enhance the quality of education.

Recall that at a recent joint policy meeting to decide the cut off mark for students seeking admission into the universities, the government announced the scrapping of post-unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME).

The Post UTME is the second stage of screening usually conducted by universities for the final selection of candidates qualified for admission for an academic session.

Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu had threatened to sanction any university or tertiary institution found conducting examinations under any guise to admit students.

He further directed tertiary institutions that had collected money from candidates for such purposes to immediately refund it or face appropriate sanctions.

The ASUU boss told NAN that such directive encroached on the autonomy of the institutions.

“I think government should give these institutions the chance to regulate themselves,” he said.

“They should decide for themselves, the process they dim fit to admit their students. The Senate of universities for example, should decide on the process they want to use in selecting candidates.

“We do not think it’s right for government to decide the method of screening of the candidates, indeed, we want to attain some level of sanity and quality in the system.”

The unionist added that government could only come into the process by putting in place the necessary guidelines as part of their oversight functions.

According to him, it may not also be easy for institutions that had already collected money for the conduct of the post-UTME or screening in whatever guise to refund such money.

He added that this was because such money could have been diverted to other purposes.

Ogunyemi noted that most universities were under-funded and therefore, might have used some of the money to attend to urgent needs of the institution.

“Some of the arguments raised in this entire episode is that universities or tertiary institutions were using the conduct of such examination to make money,” he said.

“But the truth is, these institutions are poorly funded. If universities for example are properly funded, will the vice-chancellors be looking for other means of making money?

“In the last seven months, university workers have been receiving incomplete salaries, that is, the disbursement of funds for payment of salaries has always been inadequate.

“When situations like this arise, the managements will not be left with any choice than to look inwards and seek means of meeting such needs.

“And one of such strategies is by conducting such examination.”

Ogunyemi noted that the state universities were worst hit for many of them had yet to receive subvention in the last one year.

“Actually we in ASUU frown at extortion of any type from students or candidates but the government too should be alive to its responsibilities by providing the enabling environment that will aid teaching, leaning and research.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/ASUU-kicks-against-fgs-scrapping-of-post-utme/

oohk..watching..BTW when is the meeting BTW fg and vcs

dat one concern am, post utme is scrapped is scrapped already,good ridance 2 bad rubbish.......................**haters are allowed**

malam double Adamu verdict is final in this case, enough is enough, so because of universities are poorly funded that's why they chose to extort money from poor parents

STPEACE10:
malam double Adamu verdict is final in this case, enough is enough, so because of universities are poorly funded that's why they chose to extort money from poor parents

Ogunyemi or whatever gave a very lame point,no doubt. But the truth is that most students and parents supporting this idea will carry placards and protest later because many of them with high scores will be demoted to colleges,mark my words.30/6/2016..If one fails,he feels self-guilt.

They are even shamelessly admitting to the extortion, so because schools are under funded, innocent struggling students should pay and it is not as if their admission is sure o

is jamb nt extorting money too.if they meant well they cud av scrapped UTME instead coz institutions are to admit students on their own terms.in the past 4yrs UTME has fared worse than post UTME so why nt scrap it instead.These bunch of re-tards just wanna degrade our Education system with their confused policy

Seriously, in as much as people are rejoicing over the scrapping of post-UTME, I personally do not think it's a good omen. This is because JAMB as a body isn't a reliable one.




I've seen cases where very bright students end up scoring abysmal marks as JAMB scores and it tend to make me wonder what really happened!(It once happened to me).





So,finally, my point is,if you are able to achieve a very high JAMB score,why not prove it in post-UTME? IF ANYTHING SHOULD BE SCRAPPED,IT'S JAMB AND NOT POST-UTME.

ASUU smoke weed.

Seunnzy:
is jamb nt extorting money too.if they meant well they cud av scrapped UTME instead coz institutions are to admit students on their own terms.in the past 4yrs UTME has fared worse than post UTME so why nt scrap it instead.These bunch of re-tards just wanna degrade our Education system with their confused policy

They should scrap the universities as well, so employers can train and employ job seekers on their term.


Young man, federal agencies and parastatals are setup with various responsibilities. NDLEA oversees hard drug related activities, NAFDAC oversees food and soft drug related activities. JAMB was set up, like other agencies/parastatals, to handle admission and matriculation activities. No federal or state university has the right to conduct any entrance examination. It is the responsibility of JAMB to conduct credible entrance examination, and handle matriculation in various federal, state, and private universities. Universities can work with JAMB in making the UTME examination fair and credible.



Our children shouldn't be made to pay twice for entrance examination.

This post utme saga Na season film ooo

#Fg is talking,who be ASUU ooo

No more extortion; why won't they kicked against it

Oya yin

Confused leaders.....

All in a confused state!!!

Why are both parties confused

They re all in the right sense.

We re all looking for a way forward in this country .


FG should simply allow them conduct their exams with little or no money taken from the students .


But country hard: everyday jungle dey mature, that's the only way some tertiary schools can generate huge revenue internally. SMH

Agree with ASUU....

PTUME should be kept on because universities thrive on good students, not on bad students.

coated thieves..

Just hope this will not give them an opportunity to go on strike again

after sinking their proboscis deep into aspiring students pocket

they are reluctant to let it go


what infrastructures have they built from the money gotten from post utme

it's just money for the VC and his cronies to chop and clean mouth

Yeye kwantiry

Which one be ASSU own sef?

Absolute Nonsense!



Post UTME is just a corrupt means for Universities to make money from students! Why should a candidate pay twice to be admitted into the University?


The question I'm asking and will still continue to ask is, since the inception of Post UTME don't we still have people graduating with Third Class and Pass or some even Fail and drop out? So what's this noise about selecting good and bad students?


ASUU should go and sit down or they go on their useless strike as usual!


If I'm the FG any University that wants to go against the decision should have their VC and governing council sacked! Damn it! Enough of this nonsense!

scrap jamb instead. it is a useless exam dat a brilliant person can fail while an olodo will pass

Nigeria education with too many uncertainties

In the UK we have the A-Levels and in the US SAT, maybe they should scrap both and use aggregates of the O-Levels results to gain admission like it is done in Ghana.

They should remember this is Buhari and not Mr Jonathan they toyed anyhow.

Sumao 4 dz pple

This man no dey shame....so he admits that schools use PTUME fees to raise money....chai!!!!...why is the moneynot showing?

Of Course they won't like it because they are trying to take away their money making avenue