The Guardian Editorial of Tuesday, November 15, 2016 on "New colleges insufficient" and in addition the Punch Editorial of Tuesday, November 1, 2016 on "Frame Act and expansion of UTME result" alludes. The two publications opined that "affirmation emergency in Nigeria is because of insufficient access for qualified hopefuls in our colleges." This feeling is intelligent of the unavoidable yet spurious idea that we have more qualified applicants than the spaces accessible in our colleges. This is a long way from reality. Truth be told, the Nigerian college framework the way things are today with 152 foundations – 40 government, 44 state and 68 private colleges can suit every single qualified candidate not simply from Nigeria, but rather from the whole West African sub-area.
In 2013/2014, JAMB tended to questions to a few colleges both open and private to clarify unfilled confirmation shares, which it observed to be exceptionally troubling and "damaging to our instructive framework". In reality, a few colleges couldn't top off to 5 for every penny of their affirmed conveying limit. In that period, just 5 out of 48 private colleges topped off to 50 for each penny of their affirmed confirmation quantity. Just 27 out of 70 state governments possessed colleges topped off to 50 for every penny of their affirmation standard while for the elected colleges, it was only 27 out of 60. By chance, the same The Guardian release conveyed another news report in which the present Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede affirmed that "up to 50 for every penny of affirmation share for organizations in the nation is squandered." Thus, what we are seeing is basically an auxiliary issue.
The venturesome endeavor by Prof. Dibu Ojerinde to handle this basic issue a year ago is exceptionally adulate commendable. Frame sent the rundown of understudies who couldn't pick up induction into the colleges of their decisions to different colleges situated close to the ones they initially chose. Thusly, a few understudies who might have been deserted in the long run got entrance into organizations other than the ones they had initially chosen.
Ojerinde was very creative, in light of the fact that for the most part, neither the confirmation seekers nor their folks/educators know about the way that application to JAMB UTME/Direct Entry is application to the whole framework and not just to the colleges they picked. Surely, Walk-in applicants are especially sorted after by a large number of our colleges that couldn't fill their confirmation standard however that are not yet a convention just because of numbness. So if JAMB did not really re-coordinate those hopefuls they would not have had the daringness to stroll into be conceded into those different colleges. This is the reason in 2013 once more, Federal Universities conceded just 49 for every penny of their affirmed limit while state and private colleges conceded only 42 for each penny and 8 for each penny. So where is the deficiency of confirmation space?
Obviously, the armed force of affirmation seekers have inclination for lower or zero educational cost charges. The more the expense charged, the less the appeal of the colleges. No big surprise, Federal colleges like UNILORIN with an affirmation share of 6,000 could this year alone, pull in an astounding 105,000 hopefuls when not a solitary one out of the 60 operational private colleges could get up to 2,000 candidates. The state colleges faired just somewhat better since they too charge a few expenses.
Conceivable answers for this basic issue appears to me to be to start with, the Ojerinde equation which ought to now incorporate the expansion of affirmation handling period for charge paying foundations and second, the need to give grants or bursaries to bolster the extensive number of destitute applicants so they can be consumed into the opening in expense paying colleges. Additionally, it would be political suicide for any state representative to try and consider charging suitable expenses in state possessed colleges thus for those trying to state and private colleges, government must give an alleviation to guardians.
It is interested that despite the fact that the greater part of our colleges are currently private, the aggregate number of understudies in 60 working private colleges starting today, is under 10 for each penny of the aggregate understudy populace in the Nigerian college framework. Thus, if the Federal Government is as of now paying educational cost expenses for around 90 for each penny of understudies in the framework, there is no motivation behind why it can't include the rest of the 10 for every penny into its yearly use on advanced education for Nigerians. The extra weight to be forced on you and me, the citizens, would be very unimportant. All the more so when TETFUND is awashed with money, some of which could be used in the grant sheets at both government and state levels to empower poverty stricken understudy get to advanced education in charge paying organizations as opposed to staying at home because of powerlessness to discover sponsorship.
Prof. Owoeye composed from Lead City University.
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