Akwa Ibom: Take advantage of FG’s autonomy on admissions – Varsity Chair to Institutions

Chairman of Topfaith University successful Akwa Ibom, Dr Emmanuel Abraham has urged higher institutions successful the State to clasp the autonomy connected admissions granted by the Federal Ministry of Education.

His telephone follows the bid by the Minister of Education Dr Tunji Alausa to universities to find their admittance processes without utilizing the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB introspection arsenic the main criterion for admissions of candidates.

Speaking successful an interrogation with journalists connected Thursday, Chairman of the University, Dr Emmanuel Abraham explained that if the national authorities has considered the request to let universities instrumentality inaugural of deciding who should beryllium admitted for programmes, specified measurement should beryllium accepted by stakeholders.

According to him, ” When you speech of assemblage autonomy, it is thing that is universal. It implies the capableness of the instauration to instrumentality important decisions and 1 of specified decisions is who to admit and what forms the ground of specified admission.

“The ground for admittance could beryllium from galore dimensions specified arsenic disposable facilities, quality resources, the needs of the moment, the needs of society, the imaginativeness and ngo of the assemblage arsenic good arsenic the focal points of the instructions acrophobic among others.”

Speaking connected alleged admittance racket successful Universities successful the state, Abraham described it arsenic baseless and unfounded...