Owing to limited spaces in the universities, only 30 per cent out of the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the unified tertiary matriculation examination UTME will be admitted this year.
National Universities Commission NUC Executive Secretary Abubakar Rasheed has said this at a one-day public hearing on the regulatory conflict between JAMB and universities in offering admission in Nigeria.
The hearing was organised by Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund.
The NUC boss said the limited spaces in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions have made admission crisis inevitable.
According to Rasheed, the only way to avert admission crisis is to either expand access or create more universities to accommodate students.
Source: news agencies
This is really bad. Standard of education has fallen so bad