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The Federal Government has approved a broad betterment of admittance introduction requirements into each tertiary institutions crossed Nigeria to democratise entree to higher education.
This was disclosed connected Tuesday successful a property connection signed by Boriowo Folasade, the Director, Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Education.
According to her, the caller argumentation was driven by the Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Tunji Alausa, and represented a bold measurement towards advancing the Renewed Hope Agenda and promoting inclusive acquisition arsenic a instauration for nationalist development.
Under the caller framework, the Federal Government sought to region barriers to admittance portion maintaining world standards. The guidelines use to universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and Innovation Enterprise Academies (IEAs) nationwide.
In the statement, Dr Alausa explained that the betterment became indispensable pursuing years of restricted entree that near galore qualified candidates incapable to summation admittance into tertiary institutions.
According to him, implicit 2 cardinal candidates beryllium for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) annually, yet lone astir 700,000 are admitted. This imbalance, helium noted, was not owed to a deficiency of quality oregon involvement but to outdated and overly stringent introduction requirements that indispensable present springiness mode to fairness and opportunity.
The Minister said the betterment is expected to grow entree to tertiary acquisition and make country for an further 250,000 to 300,000 students to beryllium admitted each year.
This, helium emphasised, was a deliberate effort to guarantee that nary susceptible young Nigerian is near down owed to outdated admittance policies.
“The clip has travel to unfastened the doors wider, without compromising quality. This betterment volition guarantee that each consenting and qualified Nigerian younker has a just accidental to prosecute tertiary acquisition and fulfil their potential.
“Harmonising admittance guidelines volition assistance trim the fig of out-of-school youths, fortify vocational and method education, and align Nigeria’s tertiary acquisition strategy with planetary and manufacture standards,” the Minister was quoted arsenic saying.
LEADERSHIP reports that for universities, the minimum introduction request is 5 recognition passes successful applicable subjects, including English Language, obtained successful not much than 2 sittings arsenic Mathematics remains compulsory for Science, Technology, and Social Science courses.
For polytechnics (National Diploma level), a minimum of 4 recognition passes is required successful applicable subjects, including English Language for non-science courses and Mathematics for science-related programmes.
For Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes, 5 recognition passes successful applicable subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, are required.
In colleges of acquisition (NCE level), candidates indispensable get astatine slightest 4 recognition passes, with English Language mandatory for Arts and Social Science courses, and Mathematics compulsory for Science, Vocational, and Technical courses.
For Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) programmes, the minimum is 5 recognition passes, including English Language and Mathematics.
Innovation Enterprise Academies (IEAs) volition present follow the aforesaid requirements arsenic polytechnics for the National Diploma (ND) programme. It noted that the National Innovation Diploma (NID) is hereby abolished, portion the National Industrial Diploma (NID) antecedently issued by IEAs volition beryllium phased retired and replaced with the ND to guarantee uniformity, credibility, and progression opportunities for graduates.
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has been directed to re-accredit each IEAs nationwide to align with the caller ND standards. Any instauration that fails to modulation to afloat accreditation volition be de-accredited.
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