Dr Oluyombo
Onafowokan, an Associate Professor, has flayed the directive by the Senate that
JAMB should extend the validity of results acquired in Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) to a period of three years – saying it will
have negative effect on the nation’s standard of education.
Speaking on
Saturday in an interview in Sango-Ota, Ogun state, Onafowokan, a Senior
Lecturer, School of Management & Social Sciences, Pan Atlantic University,
Lagos, stated that such policy would make students lackadaisical and unserious.
He said that
the directive by the Senate is not good for ‘our educational system because it
will make students not to take JAMB examination seriously.’
He said, “I
think the new policy will also create room for redundancy, since they know that
their JAMB result could be used to enter the university for three years.”
The don said
that JAMB should be allowed to continue with the best ways known to it in
handling the examination annually.
He further
added that the nation’s educational system needed policy that would improve
standard of education not the one that would have adverse effects.
Onafowakan
assertion is coming barely 24 hours after the Vice Chancellor of the Afe Babalola
University, Ado Ekiti(ABUAD), Prof Michael Ajisafe, faulted the same decision
by the senate to extend the validity of JAMB results to a period of three
years.
Ajisafe made
this known on Friday during a press conference heralding the 2016 convocation
ceremony, where 912 students will bag degrees in various courses.
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