OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has mandated its committee on Basic Education and Services to investigate multiple cut-off marks for admission of peoples into Nigerian Unity schools.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion moved by Randolph Brown on Tuesday, entitled: A call to investigate the criteria for the varied cut-off-marks for admission into unity schools by the National Common Entrance Examination Board (NCEEB).
Leading the debate on the motion, Brown noted there is a “trend of varied cutoff marks for students who ought to study the same courses in the future and practice the same professions is dangerous for our already epileptic educational system and will no doubt effect the development of the country in the long run.
“Concerned that most of the compromised cutoff marks do not make up to 50% of the requisite 100%, while in some cases the marks do not make up to even 20% of the requisite percentage.”
Brown added that while some students are required to have 65% to qualify, some are required to have as low as 14% for male and 12% for females.
He stressed that is the situation is not reversed, it would lead to human capital underdevelopment.
When the motion was put to vote by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, the “ayes” had it.
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