JAMB cut off mark drama continues (part 1)

The recent decision by JAMB on July 14th 2015 to reduce the cut off mark for students seeking admission into Nigerian Universities to 180 and 150 for those seeking admission into Polytechnics has generated a lot of reactions and drama.

Some students,parents and tertiary institutions welcomed the new marks because it will allow more students the opportunity to gain admission.

However, one school of thought is of the opinion that low entry mark will further lower the standard of education in Nigeria. They argue that this will cause the quality of education to deteriorate to a level where most graduates from Nigerian Universities will become unattractive to employers.

Some tertiary institutions showed their disagreement with the new cut off mark by setting their own   cut off marks. Shortly after JAMB's decision , University of Lagos announced that their cut off mark is 250 and this led to protests at UNILAG by aggrieved parents opposed to the 250 mark as it will disqualify a lot of prospective students. UNILAG has refused to rescind that decision.   

*Part 2 coming up...,'Does JAMB have the right to force tertiary institutions to admit candidates with 180 score whilst there are loads of candidates with scores ranging from 200 to 300?'  

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No Nigerian University in World's top 1000 Universities list.

The 2015 ranking for top 1,000 universities in the has been published by Centre for World University Rankings and no Nigerian University made the list again.

USA has 55 universities in the top 100 whilst UK has only 7!

African Universities that made the top 1000 list are Universities of Witwatersrand,Cape Town, Pretoria in South Africa. Ain Shams University, Mansoura University & Alexandria University in Egypt and University of Makerere in Uganda. 

The CWUR rates the universities by measuring the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without relying on surveys and data submitted by universities.

CWUR stated that it uses 8 objective and robust indicators to rank the world's top 1000 universities. 

The 8 indicators are 1. Quality of education, 2. Alumni employment, 3. Quality of faculty, 4. Publications, 5. Influence, 6. Citations, 7. Broad impact, 8. Patents.

Let us hope that the promise of the new government to revamp the education sector will yield fruit and result in our seeing at least one Nigerian University in 2016 CWUR top 1000 Universities.

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UK anti immigration rules targeting Students in FE Colleges/Studying in UK (2)

UK Home Office has come up with more harsh rules targeted at foreign students studying in the UK.

The new rules aim at preventing foreign students from attending Publicly funded FE colleges in UK.

From August 2015, students in publicly funded FE Colleges will no longer have the right to work part time, 10 hours a week .

Students at FE colleges will no longer be able to extend their visa to progress to university unless they are studying in colleges with formal link to universities.
In other words, International students in FE colleges without formal link to universities will have to head home on completion of their 'A'Levels or International Foundation Programmes.

Also, Tier 4 visas for FE study will be reduced from three to two years.
Of course, students can no longer apply for work permit from within UK on completion of their programmes, they must leave the country and apply from their country of residence for work permit.

What we have not been told is the fate of students caught up by these ill conceived rules.