Official JAMB UTME Cut-Off Mark For 2014/2015 Academic Session.

JAMB Cut-Off Marks 2014-2015 for UTME candidates have been released.
The official UTME cut-off mark was released for all of Universities,
Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and other institutions. Read full
details as reported by NGScholars via Guardian Nigeria:

Official 2014-2015 JAMB Cut-Off Marks Out:
The Federal Government in consultation with the Joint Admission and
Matriculations Board (JAMB) and other stakeholders have pegged the
cut-off marks for 2014 admissions into Universities at 180, while
Polytechnics and Colleges of Education (COE)were placed at 150
respectively.

The cut off points were arrived at on Tuesday, after the 5th Combined
Policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions held at the
National Universities Commission.

Declaring the meeting open, the Supervising Minister of Education
disclosed that the Federal Government is currently putting necessary
structures in place to fully entrench computer literacy and Computer
Based Test (CBT) at all level of Education in the country.

The minister disclosed that the Ministry has already made ICT training
part of the standard curriculum at the secondary school level in order
prepare all the youth in the country for global competitiveness.

He noted that JAMB's introduction of biometric data capture and
verification coupled with Computer Based Test (CBT) are welcome
innovations that have improved efficiency and further protected the
integrity and credibility of its examination.

Wike frowned at the inability of most tertiary institutions to utilise
their admission quota.
He therefore urged all the tertiary institutions in the country to
ensure that all the admission spaces in their schools are adequately
utilised.
"In line with the efforts of the Federal Government to improve access,
let me urge you all to with effect today, work assiduously to ensure
that all admission spaces in your institutions for the current year
are fully utilised within the approved time frame.

The Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Dibu Ojerinde in his
presentation gave a statistical run down of candidates preference for
tertiary education.

He said after the conduct of the 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination(UTME) candidates who applied for degree awarding
institutions or universities totalled 1,584,348 representing 97.070,
NCE applicants totalled 25,767 representing 1.579, ND a patlry 22,072
representing 1.349 while NID had just 46 representing 0.003.

Ojerinde wondered why Nigeria's educational system has consistently
failed to embrace technical education in its quest for
industrialisation, saying the British which Nigeria copied the
polytechnic education from now award degree in all its polytechnics.

In his remark earlier, the Chairman, Governing Board of JAMB, Peter
Eze, urged all the institutions in the country to abide by the
time-table that will be approved at the end of the meeting.

"Federal and state-owned institutions should abide by the guidelines
approved by their proprietors to promote unity, integration,
geographical spread and equit," he noted

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