FG SET TO SCRAPE NECO

Federal Government has concluded arrangements to scrap the
National Examination Council.
Plans have also been concluded to cancel the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination being conducted by the Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board for applicants into the
nation’s tertiary institutions.
JAMB will however not be scrapped.
The government’s decisions, which would be made public
soon via a White Paper, are based on the recommendations of
the Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the
Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government
Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.
A government source told our correspondent that the
decisions were part of the recommendations made by a White
Paper Committee set up by the government on the Oronsaye
report.
The source added that upon receipt of the latest report,
President Goodluck Jonathan has been meeting with Vice-
President Namadi Sambo and a few top government officials
to take final decisions on it.
It was in one of such meetings held on Tuesday that the final
decision was taken.
Under the new arrangement, the source said in place of
UTME, authorities of all tertiary institutions would now be at
liberty to conduct their entrance examinations as they had
been doing for post-UTME.
JAMB will however serve as a clearing house.
“JAMB will now be a clearing house like Universities and
Colleges Admissions Service in the UK. If somebody gains
admission into three universities and holds down space,
immediately such person picks his first choice, JAMB’s system
will automatically free the remaining two slots for other
applicants.
“JAMB will no longer conduct examinations but it will be
setting the standard alongside the schools authorities,” the
source said.
UCAS, which was established in 1993, is the British admission
service for students applying to university and college,
including post-16 education as of 2012. UCAS is primarily
funded by students who pay a fee when they apply and a
capitation fee from universities for each student they accept.
On NECO, the source said in arriving at the decision to scrap the examination body, the committee took into cognizance its
huge facilities across the country.
But it was resolved that the West African Examination
Council would absorb NECO’s members of staff and its facilities.
WAEC will also be empowered to conduct two Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations per year, one in
January and the other probably in December.
Hitherto, only one November/December SSCE Examination is being conducted.
The May/June Senior Secondary Certificate Examination being organised by the examination body once in a year still stands.
The government source also said arrangements had been
concluded to scrap the Public Complaint Commission, the National Poverty Eradication Programme and the Institute of
Peace and Conflict Resolution among others

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