It also said the cut-off marks being condemned by the public, like in previous cases, were never strictly followed by most institutions.
“Institutions were going behind to admit candidates with far less, with others admitting candidates who never sat for JAMB, “it said.
The board, which queried the continuous controversies arising from the stakeholders’ action, blamed rising quest for foreign education to what it called “our policies and attitude to national values and deep concern for realistic benchmarks for national development.
“Such and so many other poorly thought out policies have pushed our frustrated candidates out of Nigeria to developed and neighbouring African nations for education they could not get at home.’’
To this end, JAMB vowed to press ahead with current admission benchmark, stressing that it would not be deterred to do what was right for the country.
JAMB, in a statement by its Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the education sector was at its retrogressive stage because many were afraid to say the truth for fear of being condemned.
According to the statement, “it is obvious that the quest to go abroad for foreign education is not as a result of shortage of spaces or standard given some of the institutions attended by these Nigerians but partly due to some of our policies and attitude to national values and deep concern for realistic benchmarks for national development.
“The much trending controversy over the just released cut off marks for 2017 admission exercise by stakeholders at the policy meetingis quite unnecessary.”
“Today, we are where we are because many are afraid to say the truth for fear of being condemned rather than being celebrated and set free as commanded by the Holy books.
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“This not withstanding, the Board will not be deterred, we will continue to say the truth as it is and support policies that would bring our education system out of the woods.
“Today, it is a known fact that millions of Nigerians are out there schooling in mushroom institutions and they will at the end come back with all kinds of degree certificates that we can not explain their contents.
“Our naira is continually devalued as a result of so many reasons, including the pressure to pay these school’s fees.
“Irrespective of this turn of event in our education history, our tertiary institutions hardly fill their available spaces otherwise known as carrying capacity.”
The statement continued:” The question we all should be concern about is how to address the flight of Nigerians to glorified secondary schools called universities in Ghana, Uganda and even Gam
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