Confab committee wants UTME result valid for two years

The Committee on Social Sector in the perpetual National Conference, has recommended that results obtained by candidates who sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board should be valid for two years.

The committee withal flayed the circumstance where over 1.5 million people jostle annually for about 500,000 available spaces leaving the chunk of 1 million who are unable to secure admission because of low capacity of the institutions in the country.

The committee chaired by a former Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Josephine Anenih and former Minister of Inculcation, Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i as  Deputy, verbalized “JAMB result should last for two years to enable the candidates have another tribulation to secure admission.”

The committee has additionally urged both Federal and State regimes to up their budgetary allocation to edification to 26 per cent in line with the recommendation of the United Nations Edifying, Scientific and Cultural Organisation recommendation.

The Confab committee verbalized, “Federal and State regimes should perpetuate to finance inculcation through adequate annual budgetary provision of at least 26% funding, relinquish of budgeted funds as first line charge and ascertaining that funds relinquished are spent with attention to prudence and value for mazuma.”

The committee report, expected to be debated at the conference plenary this week, withal recommended that the 2 per cent Consolidated Revenue Fund allocated to the Universal Fundamental Inculcation Commission by the Federal Regime should be incremented to 4 per cent.

It withal recommended that the 2 per cent Inculcation Tax Fund remitted to the Tertiary Edification Trust Fund should be incremented to 4 per cent,integrating that this was in apperception of the consequentiality of edification to national development and the desideratum to ascertain congruous funding of the sector.

As part of initiative to enhearten more private sector participation in distribution of inculcation in the country, the committee verbally expressed there was the exigent need to stop the double taxation of private school proprietors by the Ministry of Edification and the Board of Internal Revenue.

This according to the committee would avail reduce the exorbitant fees charged by the private institutions while at the same time engender incentive for more people to invest in the sector.

The report verbally expressed, “There is fundamentally nothing erroneous with the current inculcation policy. Faithful implementation is the major quandaries. If Nigeria is able to achieve 80 per cent implementation most of the quandaries of the edifying system will be taken care