The Federal Government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman gave the directive on Monday 22 April during a monitoring exercise of the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He complained about the activities of some parent, who were pressuring their underage children to get admissions into tertiary institutions, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The minister said that the 18-year benchmark is in line with the 6-3-3-4 system of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his words, \u201cThe minimum age of entry into the University is 18, but we have seen students who are 15, 16 years going in for the entrance examination.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cParents should be encouraged not to push there wards too much. Mostly, it is the pressure of parents that is causing this.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are going to look at this development because the candidates are too young to understand what the whole university education is all about.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is the period when children migrate from controlled to uncontrolled environment; when they are in charge of their own affairs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut, if they are too young, they won\u2019t be able to manage properly. I think that is part of what we are seeing in the Universities today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Corroborating the Minister\u2019s position on the benchmark of 18 years for admission to tertiary institution, the JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin said 18 years is in line with the 6-3-3-4 education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Dailynigerian .com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Federal Government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"yoast_head":"\n