The Committee on Social Sector in the ongoing National Conference recently recommended that results obtained by candidates who write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) should be valid for two years.
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However, since the two-year validity proposal became public knowledge, hordes of stakeholders have continued to view it from different prisms and offering their insights. Expectedly, they are pitched on different sides of the divide depending of course, on their perception of inherent merits and demerits.
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According to Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan and a federal delegate to the National Conference, Olawale Albert, "Like several of my colleagues at the conference, I find the recommendation to be very good. It takes a lot of hard work and anxiety to pass JAMB examination. I am a professor today, but I passed through the JAMB process before entering the University of Ibadan in 1982.
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JAMB candidates get traumatised when they are unable to use their good scores to gain admission into the university of their choice. Some candidates score as high as 250 but fail to gain admission into the university basically because the required score for their preferred courses is 260. Many of such candidates often fail to get their second choice admission and are forced to go back to JAMB the following year."