A rights group, Stand Up Nigeria, SUN, has commended the Federal Government over the scrapping of the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, Post-UTME, saying it showed the determination of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to sanitise the education sector and end years of corruption in the sector.
The group also urged the federal government to put machinery in motion to expand the tertiary education system to be able to handle more intakes, saying this will reduce the pressure on the limited available admission spaces. The group in a statement by its Secretary General, Sunday Attah described the Post UTME as an exploitative practice to “extort admission seekers under the guise of screening them for competence.”
He said the examination was also a loophole for corruption that allows tertiary institution staff to admit preferred candidates by technically voiding the UTME scores.
