Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board registrar has again warned parents whose children are seeking admission to any Nigerian tertiary institution that they should desist from falsifying their ward's age to meet the official JAMB age limit in the ongoing admission process.
He also says that parents who are into this kind of practice, are undoubtedly pushing the children into the world of corruption and crimes.
This statement was made by the JAMB Registrar on the sideline of the presentation of the Academic and Research Excellence Award to a renowned Ilorin-based legal giant and professor of practice, Yusuf Olaolu Ali (SAN), by the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State.
In his statement, he said;
"My take home from this event is to demonstrate that universities have the potential for development and part of the development is to recognize the tools for development and to encourage development.
“The Obafemi Awolowo University has identified brilliance and it is customary to universities all over the world that brilliant students are tagged university scholars and they are encouraged to aspire to replace the current academics.
“They are planning for the future and by recognizing Yusuf Olaolu Ali. They are encouraging mentors so that they can mentor others and those other people they are mentoring can also mentor others. It’s a way of increasing our capacity to develop those who will develop the nation.”
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On the age limit conversation, the JAMB Registrar said, ”This year, the minimum age is 16, not 18. How many brilliant students do you have at the end of the day? People are cutting corners instead of us to address the root of our problem, we’re making excuses.”
He added that ”Primary school starts from age 6 and a child should undergo 12 years of training before going to university. It’s not a new policy. Fortunately, the honorable minister has agreed that this year it’ll be 16. We should get our acts right and we should agree that abnormality is becoming normal.
Olayede made a rhetorical query by saying “How can you say 50% of the class are extra brilliant? What are we seeing at the end of the day? People are cutting corners and are acting against the interest of the students. Why do you want to prematurely produce a person that is not ready biologically?”
“ I think it’s good that for this year it’s 16 years and anybody who is less than 16 and is going to university will not be admitted even though before now, some universities like UNILAG don’t give students less than age 16 admission.”
That's it.
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