02/07/2013
National Council on Education pegs Post-Jamb at N2, 000
Rising from their 59th meeting held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the National Council on Education (NCE) has pegged charges by Nigerian universities for their admission test known as post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) at N2, 000, while it also directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to sanction any university found to have charged candidates above the approved fee.
In a communique issued, the NCE also called on the National Examination Council (NECO) to produce and release all outstanding Senior Secondary School Certificates being delayed over the years. NCE specifically requested that the result must be produced before NCE next meeting and thereafter ensure release of certificates before the conduct of similar examinations”. The communique which was read by the Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, noted the efforts of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in curbing examination malpractice in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
However, the council has approved the incorporation of the 1 year pre-primary education into the existing 6-3-3-4 to become 1-6-3-3-4 which now mandate primary schools to have a nursery section. The NCE has also shift the implementation of the revised 9-Year Basic Education Curriculum to 2014 beginning with Primary 1 and Junior Secondary School 1.
