Stakeholders in the education sector have Agreed to retain the 2014/2015 National cutoff mark as bench mark for Admitting candidates Unified Tertiary Matriculation of the Examinations into various degree and non-degree programmes in the 2015/2016 academic year.
The 2015 Combined Policy Meeting on Admission to Degree, National Certificate on Education and National Diploma held at the National Universities Commission on Tuesday.
The meeting unanimously adoped the 180 and 150 cut-off marks.
This was even as the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. MacJohn Nwaobiala, who chaired the meeting, warned the various institutions to abide by the decisions in the processing and admission.
Nwaobiala said the process must be completed before October 31 for the next session.
The Combined Admission Committee Agreed that 60/40 per cent ratio be adopted for candidates for admission into degree programmes in science, while 70/30 per cent should be used for technology and non-technology courses in the polytechnics.
Earlier, the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, had taken the stakeholders through a detailed analysis of the outcome of the last UTME in terms of candidates’ performance, spread of applicants and choice of institutions.
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