How Education Minister Insisted Cut-off marks for varsities be above 120

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On Thursday, at the 2022 policy meeting put together by JAMB, it was a heated session as stakeholders slug it out with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyode, over what the cut-off marks should be for university admissions. Both education chieftains prevented the benchmark from being set at 120 at the meeting.

According to our report on this matter earlier, during the policy meeting at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, the board approved 150 as the cut-off mark for universities, 120 for polytechnics, and 100 for colleges of education.

Before the final decision was taken, a section of stakeholders voted that the minimum cut-off mark for universities be set at 120.

Sunny Echono, the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, asked the stakeholders to review the cut-off.

“If we should set the minimum benchmark for universities at 120, what are we going to set for colleges of education? I think we should decide the benchmark for colleges of education first,” the TETFund boss suggested.

Hence, they decided on the benchmarks for colleges of education and polytechnics; thereafter, Adamu opted that the standard should not go below 140.

“The benchmark should not go below 140. In fact, I suggest 145,” the minister said.

There and then, the stakeholders chose the 140 minimum benchmark.

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