The Federal Government has warned specialised universities
in the country, which have been running programmes that are not in conformity
with their mandates, to stop such with immediate effect. In a statement on
Sunday, the government therefore directed that such universities should stick
to their core mandates for which they were set up “and desist from running
programmes which have no bearing to their names and foundation.”
It described as unfortunate a situation where universities
of agriculture offered programmes in Law and management courses such as
Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, among others.
The statement by the spokesman for the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, stated that the Minister of
Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, had directed JAMB “to delete all such courses on
its portal.”
All candidates desirous of sitting the 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination, the statement advised, “should not be hoodwinked
into such programmes as they are illegal and are not provided for in JAMB
brochure.”
The statement described specialised universities as those
set up to pursue specific courses and programmes to generate manpower in
particular sectors of the economy.
He said, “Some of these specialised institutions include
universities of agriculture, universities of technologies and universities of
medicine, amongst others.
“The Federal Government has observed that these institutions
have derailed from their statutory responsibilities, thereby running programmes
that are antithetical to their mandates.
“The government notes the unfortunate situation where
Universities of Agriculture offer programmes in Law, management courses such as
Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, among others.
“As if that was not enough, some institutions change the
nomenclature of some of the courses to read, for instance, banking engineering,
accounting technology, among other names. This is an aberration and should be
stopped with immediate effect.”
According to him, JAMB has not commenced the sales of the
2017 UTME application documents.
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