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Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says elder secondary schoolhouse students successful the arts and humanities volition nary longer beryllium required to contiguous a recognition successful mathematics successful their Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for tertiary admissions.
This is contained successful a connection issued connected Tuesday successful Abuja by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs Folasade Boriowo.
Boriowo quoted the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, arsenic saying the betterment became indispensable aft years of restricted entree that denied galore qualified candidates admittance opportunities.
Alausa said the determination was a deliberate effort to grow entree to tertiary education, noting that portion implicit 2 cardinal candidates beryllium for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) annually, lone astir 700,000 summation admission.
He said the revised National Guidelines for Entry Requirements into Nigerian Tertiary Institutions were designed to region barriers portion maintaining world standards.
According to him, nether the caller framework, universities volition necessitate a minimum of 5 recognition passes successful applicable subjects, including English Language, obtained successful not much than 2 sittings.
Mathematics, helium said, remains mandatory lone for Science, Technology and Social Science courses.
For polytechnics, a minimum of 4 recognition passes successful applicable subjects volition beryllium required, including English Language for non-science courses and Mathematics for science-related programmes.
Colleges of Education volition besides necessitate a minimum of 4 recognition passes, with English Language mandatory for Arts and Social Science courses, and Mathematics for Science, Vocational and Technical programmes.
Alausa said Innovation Enterprise Academies would follow the aforesaid introduction standards arsenic polytechnics for the National Diploma (ND) programme.
“The National Innovation Diploma (NID) would beryllium phased retired and replaced with the ND to guarantee uniformity, credibility and progression opportunities for graduates”.
He added that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) is presently re-accrediting each Innovation Enterprise Academies crossed the state to align with the caller ND standards.
The curate said the betterment would alteration an further 250,000 to 300,000 students to summation admittance each year, thereby reducing the fig of out-of-school youths and strengthening vocational and method education.
He said the inaugural reflects the Federal Government’s committedness to fairness, inclusion and alignment of Nigeria’s tertiary acquisition strategy with planetary and manufacture standards.
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