While a majority of them have described the new JAMB decision as counterproductive and dangerous, others see it as a welcome development and inclusive.
Prof. Monday Omoregie of the University of Benin described the lowering of the cut-off mark for university admission to 140 as ridiculous and a signal of the decline in the quality of education in the country. “What a union like the Academic Staff Union of Universities has been crying for is that government should invest massively in education in our country.For Prof. Monday Igbafen of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, universities should be allowed to set their own cut-off marks without JAMB usurping the functions of the university Senate.
According to him, the new minimum score is a confirmation that JAMB is really out to aid the decline of quality of education in the country. But, another lecturer in the same institution, Mr Jerry Etta, said that the reduction was in order and was based on the low performance of candidates in the last UTME.
Wodi said although JAMB may have good intentions to lower the cut-off marks, education should not be run on the principle of promoting national cohesion.
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