The Federal Govt has restrained people underneath the past of 18 from participating within the Nationwide Examinations Council and West African Examinations Council assessments.
The Minister of Training, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this when he featured on Channels Tv’s ‘Sunday Politics’ program on Sunday evening.
Mamman defined that the government has directed WAEC, which conducts the West African Senior College Certificates Exam and NECO, which oversees the Senior College Certificates Exam to implement the 18-year past requirement for applicants wishing to jerk those assessments.
This, he stated used to be no longer a brandnew coverage.
He added that the past restrict for applicants sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam, administered through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, residue all set at 18 years.
He stated, “It’s 18 (years). What we did on the assembly that we had with JAMB (in July) used to be to permit this 12 months and for it to grant as one of those understand for fogeys that this 12 months, JAMB will admit scholars who’re underneath that past however from upcoming 12 months, JAMB goes to insist that any one making use of to walk to college in Nigeria meets the desired past which is eighteen.
“For the avoidance of hesitancy, this isn’t a brandnew coverage; this can be a coverage that has been there for an extended age.
“Even principally if you happen to compute the choice of years pupils, and newcomers are meant to be at school, the quantity you are going to finally end up with is 17 and a part – from early kid aid to number one college to juvenile secondary college and next senior secondary college. You’ll finally end up with 17 and a part through the age they’re in a position for admission.
“So, we are not coming up with new policy contrary to what some people are saying; we are just simply reminding people of what is existing. In any case, NECO and WAEC, henceforth will not be allowing underage children to write their examinations. In other words, if somebody has not spent the requisite number of years in that particular level of study, WAEC and NECO will not allow them to write the examination.”