NUT condemns JAMB’s 150 cut-off marks for Polytechnics, colleges

Nigeria Union of Teachers has condemned the
Joint Admission and Matriculation Board policy
that places cut-off marks for students seeking
admission into Universities at 180 and 150 for
those seeking admission into Polytechnics and
Colleges of EducationThe General Secretary of the NUT, Obong Obong
made the disclosure in a statement signed by
the union, describing the policy as derogatory,
and highly discriminatory.
NUT explained that the policy is targeted “at
demeaning and lowering the professional status
of teachers with its concomitant negative effect
on the attainment of quality education in the
country.

“It is of great disservice to the education sector
where the best brains and students of distinction
are placed in other courses while those with
lower grades are pushed into teaching,” he said.
The union further called for an immediate
reversal of the policy adding that the government
must ensure only students of distinction are
admitted to be trained as teachers in all
educational institutions in the county.
Mr. Obong said in most advanced and developed
countries, it is considered that a teacher’s ability
to disseminate knowledge to students is
dependent on his sound intellectual capability.
He explained that the government deliberately
sourced for people with lower educational
content to become teachers only to turn around
and blame them for poor delivery.