ASUU expresses satisfaction with ongoing admission screening in universities

The Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) on Friday said it was satisfied with
the ongoing admission screening process in
some universities across the country.
The National President of ASUU, Prof.
Biodun Ogunyemi, made the remark in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Lagos.
NAN reports that following the scrapping of
the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) by the Federal
Government, the universities came up with
fresh measures to screen candidates for the
2016/2017 admission.
Ogunyemi, who is also a lecturer at the
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye,
Ogun, said, ``I want to say that so far, we
are satisfied with the screening procedure.
``We cannot be in all the institutions at a
time, but reports reaching us and from our
observations, the universities are on the
right track.
``You see, no dictation from outside the
universities can stop the institutions from
doing this screening.
``It is part of the procedures spelt out by
the Senate of the various universities for
admission of candidates.
``Government can only provide guidelines
such as quota for the academically less-
advantaged areas, but the issue of merit is
strictly for the universities to
determine.’’
He urged the universities not to lose focus
in ensuring that only qualified candidates
were admitted into the respective
programmes in the institutions.
According to him, the screening will also
raise the quality of undergraduates which
will transform to quality graduates.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu
Adamu, had recently announced the
scrapping of post-UTME while declaring
open a Combined Policy Meeting on
admission into the tertiary institutions.
Adamu said it was unnecessary to subject
admission seekers to another round of
examinations after the UTME which was
conducted by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB).