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Showing posts with label latest nigerian education news. Show all posts
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Posted by Nigerianparrot at Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR
2010/2011 SCREENING AND INTERVIEW FOR DIRECT ENTRY ADMISSION

Candidates for Direct Entry Admission into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka who have registered with Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and have a Degree or at least a Merit/Lower credit level pass in Diploma or NCE are invited for screening and interview.

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UNIBEN POST-UTME 2010/2011 RESULT

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The 2010 result of the Post-UTME Screening Exercise of University of Benin (UNIBEN) which took place on Friday 23rd July 2010 and Saturday 24th July 2010 in various centers within Ugbowo Campus of UNIBEN has been released

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WAEC RESULTS 2010/2011 RELEASED

Posted by Nigerianparrot at Sunday, August 29, 2010
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The West African Examination Council WAEC has released the results of the recently concluded May/June 2010/2011 examination results.

Only 42 per cent of students, which represents 677,007 candidates of the 1,351,557 candidates that sat for the May-June 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), obtained five credits and above, the Head of Nigeria National Office (HNO) of WAEC, Iyi Uwadiae, said in Lagos on Thursday.

Mr Uwadiae said only 534,841 candidates obtained six credits and above in the examination, while 337,071 candidates obtained credits in English language, mathematics and at least three other subjects.


The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) also said it has withheld the results of 77,168 candidates who sat for the May-June 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). Mr Uwadiae said the withheld results were owing to alleged involvement of the affected candidates in examination malpractice.

The council said that the results of 1,278, 843 of the 1, 351,557candidates who sat for examination were fully processed, while 72,714 candidates had few of their subjects still being processed.

“I am delighted to announce the release of the results four weeks ahead of schedule. A total of 1,058,806 candidates, representing 78.33 per cent, have two credits and above, 936,470 68.84 per cent) have three credits and above and 806,583 (59.67 per cent) have four credits and above.

“Also, 677,007 candidates obtained five credits and above while 534,841 candidates (39.57 per cent) obtained six credits and above,” he said.

He added that 451,187 candidates obtained credit and above in English Language while 560,974 obtained credit and above in mathematics.

He said 98 blind candidates sat for the examination, out of which 13 obtained credits in five subjects, including English language. These special candidates were exempted from taking mathematics and science practicals.

Out of the 1, 351,557candidates that sat for the examination, some 611,893 were female.

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REPS Charges Ministry,NUC To Stop Conducting Post-UTME Screening Exercise(2010/2011)

Posted by Nigerianparrot at Saturday, May 29, 2010
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The House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission to abolish the Post-Universities Matriculation Examination conducted by universities in the country.

The ministry and NUC supervise the 104 universities, which in introduced the tests, a condition which must be met before students are offered admission. The universities had argued that the tests were introduced to raise the quality of those given admission to tertiary institutions.

The tests were introduced following the claims by universities that due to alleged cases of examination fraud, many who were offered admission by JAMB could barely write their names.

In a resolution in Abuja, the House said that the tests were not only “exploitative” but also a burden to prospective students and their parents

Post-UME tests are written by students after they have sat and passed the UME conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

JAMB, however, replaced the UME with the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination this year.

But on Thursday, the House disagreed with the universities, saying that they (universities) were only out to use the tests as a source of revenue and in the process, deny many eligible candidates admission.

A member from Kogi State, Mr. Samson Positive, who sponsored a motion on the matter, informed the House that poor parents could not afford the cost of the tests.

Besides, he told the House that students had to travel far distances at great risks to their lives to sit for the tests.
The motion also queried the legality of the tests as it argued that JAMB was the only body recognised by law to conduct university admission examinations.
He added that the recent introduction of UTME “where candidates have six choices, two for universities; two for polytechnics; and two for colleges of education renders post-UME unnecessary.”
However, some members opposed the motion and insisted that the tests should be retained.
One of them, the Chairman of the House Committee on Water Resources, Mr. Terngu Tsegba, argued that the tests gave ”equal opportunity” to all candidates to compete for the limited admission spaces available in the universities.
According to Tsegba, examinations conducted by bodies such as JAMB had revealed shortcomings on their part and interference from external forces.
He said, “This situation has sometimes raised doubts over the credibility of the results.
“The post-UME test is therefore a leveller and gives all candidates equal opportunities to prove themselves for the limited admission spaces.”
Tsegba also disagreed with the notion that the universities had no legal backing to conduct the tests.
He held the view that each university was empowered under the act establishing it to decide how students should be admitted in its faculties and departments.
Although the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Mr. Farouk Lawan, supported the motion, he called on JAMB to review the conduct of the UME or UTME and make the process acceptable to the universities.
Lawmakers later endorsed the motion in a majority voice vote.
The House also passed a related motion seeking to investigate the N10,000 ”extra charge” JAMB allegedly imposed on candidates who sat for the April 23 UTME.
Out of the 1.2 million candidates who wrote the examination, the sponsor of the motion, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu-Bunu, said that 82,000 of them did not get “their scores (results) in all subjects, except English Language.

The lawmaker noted that rather than admit its failure for releasing the results, JAMB blamed it on the candidates by imposing the N10,000 charge on them.

He said, “JAMB‘s failure to release the results of the 82,000 candidates may not be attributed to the candidates‘ failure to shade proper answers on the answer sheets as alleged by the examination body, but may be as a result of inadequate organisational and supervisory network to address the menace.”

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