JAMB Cut-Off Marks 2014-2015 for UTME
candidates have been released. The official UTME cut-off mark was
released for all of Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education
and other institutions. NGScholars has made a post talking about this
cut-off marks in this post and we promised to inform you whenever the
official 2014 JAMB cut-off marks are released.
Now here they are as reported by Guardian Nigeria:
Official 2014-2015 JAMB Cut-Off Marks Out
THE Federal Government in consultation
with the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) and other
stakeholders have pegged the cut-off marks for 2014 admissions into
Universities at 180, while Polytechnics and Colleges of Education
(COE)were placed at 150 respectively.
The cut off points were arrived at on
Tuesday, after the 5th Combined Policy meeting on admissions to tertiary
institutions held at the National Universities Commission.
Declaring the meeting open, the
Supervising Minister of Education disclosed that the Federal Government
is currently putting necessary structures in place to fully entrench
computer literacy and Computer Based Test (CBT) at all level of
Education in the country.
The minister disclosed that the Ministry
has already made ICT training part of the standard curriculum at the
secondary school level in order prepare all the youth in the country for
global competitiveness.
He noted that JAMB’s introduction of
biometric data capture and verification coupled with Computer Based Test
(CBT) are welcome innovations that have improved efficiency and further
protected the integrity and credibility of its examination.
Wike frowned at the inability of most tertiary institutions to utilise their admission quota.
He therefore urged all the tertiary
institutions in the country to ensure that all the admission spaces in
their schools are adequately utilised.
“In line with the efforts of the Federal
Government to improve access, let me urge you all to with effect today,
work assiduously to ensure that all admission spaces in your
institutions for the current year are fully utilised within the approved
time frame.
The Registrar and Chief Executive of
JAMB,Dibu Ojerinde in his presentation gave a statistical run down of
candidates preference for tertiary education.
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He said after the conduct of the 2014
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) candidates who applied
for degree awarding institutions or universities totalled 1,584,348
representing 97.070, NCE applicants totalled 25,767 representing 1.579,
ND a patlry 22,072 representing 1.349 while NID had just 46 representing
0.003.
Ojerinde wondered why Nigeria’s
educational system has consistently failed to embrace technical
education in its quest for industrialisation, saying the British which
Nigeria copied the polytechnic education from now award degree in all
its polytechnics.
In his remark earlier, the Chairman,
Governing Board of JAMB, Peter Eze, urged all the institutions in the
country to abide by the time-table that will be approved at the end of
the meeting.
“Federal and state-owned institutions
should abide by the guidelines approved by their proprietors to promote
unity, integration, geographical spread and equit,” he noted.