UTME: Institutions Review Admission Slots To 704,000

[Shola Sholaz]

Tertiary institutions across the country, yesterday, declared that they could only admit 704,000 students out of more than 740,000 candidates who are qualified to be given admission for the 2013/2014 academic year having scored 200 and above.
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Out of the 1,735,720 candidates that registered for this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, 1,540,179 candidates had their results released as 738,375 candidates have already crossed the 200 marks bar, even as the results of the 36,000 candidates that wrote computer-based tests have not been made public.
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This came as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and National Universities Commission, NUC, vowed to vet post-matriculation admissions.
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The institutions also debated the cut-off mark for this year's admission after a rowdy argument at the 4th Combined Policy Committee meeting held at NUC headquarters in Abuja.