JAMB Candidates should Not Choose Unauthorized Courses In Specialized Varsities - FG
The Federal Government has warned specialized
institutions in the country, which have been
running programmes that are not in conformity
with their mandates, to stop such with immediate
effect.
In a statement on Sunday, the government
directed that such universities should stick to
their core mandates for which they were set up
and desist from running programmes which have
no bearing to their names and foundation.
It described as unfortunate a situation where
universities of agriculture offered programmes in
Law and management courses such as
Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business
Administration, among others, and most of these
institution go as far as changing the
nomenclature of the courses, a situation where
they have now have Banking Engineering,
Accounting Technology among others.
The statement by the spokesman for the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board, Dr. Fabian
Benjamin, stated that the Minister of Education,
Mallam Adamu Adamu, had directed JAMB “to
delete all such courses on its portal.”
He added that all candidates desirous of sitting
the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination, the statement advised, “should not
be hoodwinked into such programmes as they are
illegal and are not provided for in JAMB brochure.
He described specialised universities as those set
up to pursue specific courses and programmes to
generate manpower in particular sectors of the
economy.
He said, “Some of these specialised institutions
include universities of agriculture, universities of
technologies and universities of medicine,
amongst others.
The Federal Government has observed that these
institutions have derailed from their statutory
responsibilities, thereby running programmes that
are antithetical to their mandates.
The government notes the unfortunate situation
where Universities of Agriculture offer programmes
in Law, management courses such as Accounting,
Banking and Finance, Business Administration,
among others.
It described this as aberration which must stop
with immediate effect.
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