NUC reveals number of UTME candidates to be admitted

The National Commission on Universities (NUC) has announced that only 30 percent of the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the unified tertiary enrollment test (UTME) will be admitted this year.

The commission's executive secretary, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, said this at a one-day public hearing on the regulatory conflict between JAMB and universities in offering admission to Nigeria.

According to him, the only way to avoid the crisis of admission in the country was to expand access or create more universities to accommodate students.

"The crisis of admission in this inevitable country. Unless we expand the spaces, we will continue to have admission crises in this country.

"Each exam has its own problem. We believe that the JAMB test is credible and everyone operating in the system respects the JAMB test results," he said.

JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede said there was no conflict between JAMB and universities.

He said: "It is not true that we have 1.7 million candidates ready to enter the Nigerian university system. Of the 1.7 million who took the exam, I can conveniently say that no more than 30 percent of them are unprepared for the admission, they only try. They do not have the level of O five required to enter the university.

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"Secondly, let me also realize that 10 percent of the 1.7 million we see or 1.9 as the case may not be what can be categorized as belonging to the net enrollment rate to enter tertiary education They belong to the gross enrollment rate.

"80 percent of the candidates sitting at the moment of sitting do not have the O level at all, they are waiting for results, so when we build our theories and analysis, we must be very cautious.

"If you get 400 points above 400 if you do not have the five  O levels, you can not go to college. The basic grade is the level of five."