Nigeria News: JAMB crashes cut-off marks
Minister admits error in prohibition post-UTME The Joint Admissions and admittance Board (JAMB) yesterday crashed the admission cut-off marks into universities, polytechnics and schools of education within the country from a hundred and eighty to as low as a hundred and twenty and one hundred. The Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, World Health Organization disclosed in capital of Nigeria throughout the Combined Policy Meeting on 2017 admissions, pegged the mininum score for degree programmes at a hundred and twenty, whereas that of polytechnics and schools of education was place at one hundred. Saying that tertiary establishments area unit at liberty to outfit the benchmarks subject to the selections of their Senate and educational boards, Oloyede stressed that no establishment was expected to travel below the cut-off marks. He said: “For degree-awarding establishments, the minimum upright score is a hundred and twenty, for polytechnics, it ranges between one hundred and a hundred a...