Following the announcement of the cancellation of Post Utme in various institutions by the Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu, the new system whereby it will be an online screening process without writing of any exam has duly been criticized by a lot of people and the former Executive Secretary of NUC has said that Nigeria in the Education sector do not know exactly the direction we are heading;
“Actually, I must say that
we do not know where we are heading to yet.; said Okebukola
“The reason is that both the JAMB and the universities under the umbrella of
Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigeria Universities (AVCNU) are not even sure of the criteria.
“We have yet to have any clear view of
where we are going yet, but I suspect that in another one week or two, we are likely to know where we are going.
“As of now, the environment is still very
cloudy on the post UTME thing,’’ he said.
However, he was asked how Post Utme Started;
He said: “During my tenure as
Executive Secretary, it started in the form of screening.
“It was aimed at getting quality candidates into our tertiary institutions, especially the universities.
“It all happened that in 2002, some of the vice-chancellors after the UME came to me on a Sunday after the examination the previous day.
“They reported that there was a big issue in a particular university which I will not like to mention but they complained that almost half of the students of the university sat for the UME.
“And when I asked why, they said some
persons who are candidates of UME used these students to write the examination for them as mercenaries.
“It then dawned on us that some of these people that normally brandish high scores are not really the true owners of such scores’’. Okebukola Concluded
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