Senate Moves To Scrap Post-UTME Aptitude Test

The Nigerian Senate had started moves to scrap the post Unified Matriculation Examination, UME.

The Senate yesterday commanded its advisory group on Tertiary Education to meet with important partners, particularly the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and think of suggestions on the best way to accomplish the set objective.

As indicated by the Senate, the move has turned out to be basic on the grounds that the presentation of the post – UME examination has to a substantial degree neglected to cure the issues related with the JAMB, including that its proceeded with presence has postured more difficulties for the Nigeria instructive framework.

The Senate has likewise required the advancement of a procedure that would guarantee the proficiency and honesty in the direct of JAMB examination.

The resolutions of the Senate Tuesday took after a movement by Senator Umaru l. Kurfi, APC, Katsina Central and entitled, "The Need to return to the administrative clash between Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Universities in offering affirmation in Nigeria."

In his introduction of the movement, Senator Umaru l. Kurfi noticed that since the Post-UME strategy was acquainted as a cure with the rot in instructive standard in higher establishments of learning, there have been open clamor of blackmail from competitors in spite of the thorough test they go through at JAMB.

He focused on that the trustworthiness of the post - UME examination is interested being referred to as the financial thought process of the particular establishments comes so unmistakably to the fore that there is little misrepresentation about augmenting the wage moves through these inner examinations;