Senate endorses Post- UTME

The Senate on Thursday endorsed the Post-Universities and other Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) despite the controversy that has trailed its introduction by the nation’s tertiary institutions.

The Senate also advocated the complete ban of all Special Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Examination Centres popularly called ‘Miracle centres’
The upper legislative chamber also noted that JAMB is currently faced with a lot of challenges in the conduct of “fool-proof” matriculation examinations but noted that the agency has not failed.

These followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Education, on the investigation of illegality of Post UTME and the failure of JAMB to conduct examinations acceptable to universities during plenary in Abuja..........Full story