As part of Education reforms, Federal Government has concluded arrangements to scrap the National Examination Council.
Plans have also been concluded to cancel the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination being conducted by the Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board for applicants into the nation’s tertiary
institutions.
JAMB will however not be scrapped. The government’s decisions, which would be made
public soon via a White Paper, are based on the recommendations of the Stephen
Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation and Restructuring of
Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.
A government source told our correspondent
that the decisions were part of the recommendations made by a White Paper
Committee set up by the government on the Oronsaye report.
The source added that upon receipt of the latest
report, President Goodluck Jonathan has been meeting with Vice-President Namadi
Sambo and a few top government officials to take final decisions on it.
It was in one of such meetings held on Tuesday
that the final decision was taken.
Under the new arrangement, the source said in place
of UTME, authorities of all tertiary institutions would now be at liberty to
conduct their entrance examinations as they had been doing for post-UTME.
