The Senate has formally endorsed post-UME examination and maintained that inclusion of written tests in screening students by Nigerian universities is legal.
Senate, in adopting the report of its Committee on Education headed by Uche Chukwumerije, who investigated the alleged illegality in the conduct of post-UME as conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), noted it could not sustain any charge of illegality against the examination.
In adopting the recommendations of the report of the committee, the Senate however recommended a gross charge of N6,000 per candidate to JAMB and N2,000 to a university in order to boost the internally generated revenue of the institutions.
“A species of hidden charges namely, extra levies on most valued courses, (N350,000-N300,000 for MBBS Programme; N200,000-N150,00 for Engineering or Law programme), allegedly flourishing in some universities should be banned,” said Chukwumerije.
The Senate also adopted the recommendation that budgetary allocations to the education sector be increased.
The senate said to accelerate the pace of sanitization of which JAMB is already undertaking, there should be an immediate ban on ‘miracle centres’ while the day of sitting of JAMB should be transferred from Saturday or any weekend day to a week day.
“It is found that Saturday offers a free rein to impersonators who are mainly recruited from the ranks of public and private-sector workers who should be busy in their offices on week days,” said Chukwumerije.
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