JAMB: Stakeholders At Policy Meeting Protest As Education Minister Pegs 2024 Admission Age At 18yrs
•By Our Reporter
ABUJA – Stakeholders currently participating at the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting were rattled when the Minister of Education, Prof Mamman Tahir announced that candidates seeking admission into higher institutions must be 18 years and above.
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Immediately the Minister made the comment in his address and policy directive, the crowd roared “no, no, no” but Tahir insisted that it is already a policy which the government has keyed into because it is the expectation that candidates are much more matured at 18years.
He said if anyone was aggrieved they can approach the National Assembly for amendment.
The JAMB policy meeting is an annual event where stakeholders from the various tertiary institutions in the country sit to decide on appropriate cut-off marks for admissions in the current academic year.
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Recall that Mamman had previous condemned a situation where students find themselves in higher institutions of learning, but fall prey to negative vices because of their premature stage.
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