Tertiary institutions in the country have not been able to successfully fill 70 per cent of their admission quota in the last five years, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has stated.
The organisation premised the inability on the insistence on compliance with uniformity of cut-off marks adopted by the Federal Government.
According to Oloyede, the adoption of 180 cut-off mark as a benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions has consistently frustrated candidates, who are qualified but with less cut-off points.
He said tertiary institutions should be allowed to determine their cut-off points based on the number of candidates who applied to the institution for admission.
The JAMB chief executive officer stated, “Every year, we do not meet 70 per cent of the quota, contrary to what people think that there are more people than the existing places. We have in the last five years not filled 70 per cent of the quota. We need to ask a question: why? The simple answer is a mismatch.
“I can say it without any doubt that it has never been obeyed. It is only obeyed on papers. When you talk about the practice of it, there are hundreds of people in our universities, polytechnics and colleges of education that have not gone through JAMB.
“The reason is that we are setting standards that cannot be obeyed. They will now go through the back door and recruit people with 160, 150, 140 and some who did not take JAMB at all because you have made 180 the minimum.
“I went to colleges of education in Kano and Jigawa; all the institutions, when I toured the place to have a first-hand information, they told me: ‘look, we know you; you will say obey the rules. This is the rule, the rule cannot be obeyed’.
“Why? If you obey 180, 70 per cent of our Colleges of Education will be out of duty because they will have no student. What they do is that they recruit with 140, 130 and they just say ‘let JAMB be doing what JAMB is doing.’”
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