ASUU THREATENS TO CANCEL POST-UTME EXAMS IN UNIVERSITIES

Thousands of students who wrote the university-organised matriculation
examinations, commonly called Post-UME, during university lecturers
strike may have engaged in a futile exercise and may be forced to
re-write the examination as lecturers complain they had no input in
the exercise.
Speaking at a press conference ...
called by the Ibadan Zone of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the Lagos State
University, Ojo, the Zonal Coordinator, Adesola Nassir, said the
leadership of the universities that have conducted the examination
hurriedly did so because of the financial gains accruable from the
candidates.
"It is an abnormality," he said. "How can you hold such an important
examination without the input of academic staff," he asked.
"Vice-chancellors are employing non-academic staff and consultant to
do Post-UME. They are doing it because of money. The exam already
constitutes a crisis-point in the universities."
Mr. Nassir said the "results from the examination may be jettisoned."
After writing the government sanctioned Universal Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME), most individual universities in
Nigeria require students to pass internally organised matriculation
examinations called Post-UME.
In most cases, an average a student's score from both examinations is
considered before the student is granted admission. This arrangement
started in 2005 over complaints about the falling standard of UTME by
universities.
The Ibadan Zone of ASUU comprises University of Lagos (UNILAG),
University ofIbadan (UI), Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Lagos
State University (LASU), University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB),
and Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED).