ASUU AGREES TO SCREENING EXERCISE FOR TERTIARY ADMISSIONS.

 CROSS SECTION OF MATRICULATING STUDENTS.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) today clearly announced that it was satisfied with the ongoing admission screening process in some universities all over the nation. The National president of the body, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the city of Lagos State.
NAN had it that following the scrapping of the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by the federal government, most tertiary institutions have procured new methods to screen eligible candidates for the 2016/2017 academic session. The ASUU president who is likewise a lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun, said: “I want to say that so far, we are satisfied with the screening procedure. “We cannot be in all the institutions at a time, but reports reaching us and from our observations, the universities are on the right track.
Ogunyemi advised the universities not to lose focus at making sure that only qualified candidates given admission into the respective programs in the citadel of learning. Following Malam Adamu Adamu the Minister of Education's recent announcement on the scrapping of the post jamb exercise while declaring open a Combined Policy Meeting on admission into the universities. He said, the screening will also raise the quality of undergraduates which will transform to quality graduates. Following the education minister's statement that it was important to make candidates write another set of examinations after the UTME that was conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). About two days ago, the National Universities Commission (NUC) released a list of some courses that have not been accredited in some institutions.