{"id":336522,"date":"2024-08-28T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=336522"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:15:29","slug":"atiku-fgs-policy-on-minimum-age-for-tertiary-institution-admission-disincentive-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/08\/28\/atiku-fgs-policy-on-minimum-age-for-tertiary-institution-admission-disincentive-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku: FG\u2019s policy on minimum age for tertiary institution admission disincentive to education"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Mamman had said that the age limit for any candidate to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) remained 18 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>He emphasised that the policy was not a new one but was merely being enforced by the incumbent administration.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has criticized the policy setting 18 as the minimum age for tertiary institution admissions.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his X official page on Wednesday, Abubakar, a former vice president, said the policy belongs to the &#8220;stone age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in July, the federal government adopted 18 as the minimum age for university, polytechnic, and college of education admissions.<\/p>\n<p>Tahir Mamman, the minister of education, also recently declared that students who have not spent the required total of 12 years in primary and secondary school will not be allowed to write any of the senior school certificate examinations (SSCE).<\/p>\n<p>The policy has elicited mixed reactions as some parents have rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the discourse, Abubakar described the policy as \u201can absurdity and a disincentive to scholarship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atiku\/status\/1828721506119041048?t=R11A1ZLS-0RU7PNP7HILAA&amp;s=08\"><strong>former vice-president said<\/strong> <\/a>it contravened the notion of \u201cdelineation of responsibilities\u201d in federalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian constitution puts education in the concurrent list of schedules, in which the sub-national government enjoys more roles above the federal government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is extra-constitutional for the federal government to legislate on education in a manner similar to a decree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best global standard for such regulation is to allow the sub-national governments to make respective laws or rules on education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is discouraging that even while announcing this obnoxious policy, the government inadvertently said it had no plan to cater for specially gifted pupils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irony here is that should the federal government play any role in education, it is to set up mechanisms that will identify and grant scholarships to gifted students, not minding their ages before applying for admission into tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis controversial policy belongs in the stone ages and should be roundly condemned by everyone who believes in intellectual freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria operates the 6\u20133\u20133\u20134 system where a child enrols in school at age six for six years each of primary and secondary education.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of secondary school, a Nigerian is expected to be aged 18 but many students often graduate at 16 or less due to skipped grades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamman had said that the age limit for any candidate to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) remained 18 years. 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