The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted management courses of a few universities in its present affirmation pamphlet.
They are Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Modibbo Adamawa Federal University of Technology, Yola (MAUTY), Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMINNA), Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) and University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAW).
This is spin-off of a request by the government that the universities of Agriculture and Technology should quit running management courses and concentrate on their core competence.
The order was issued by the Ministry of Education after it was endorsed as of late by the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
JAMB’s representative, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed that the choice to delist the projects was not taken by the Board as being proposed by the some staff and students of the affected universities.
“It was a ministerial decision based on FEC meeting and as an agency of government, we are to implement government decisions.,” he told Sun.
“So, in the concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the concerned institutions did not field candidates.”
In the interim, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the House Committee on Tertiary Education have questioned the order.
Responding, ASUU FUNAAB chairman, Dr. Adebayo Oni, said the national body of the union knew about the government choice yet noticed that it was managed without appropriate consultation with affected universities and stakeholders.
He stated: "FUNAAB branch took the issue to our zonal branch meeting which detailed same at the national level. The delisting of the program was done in flurry and it is illicit by JAMB.
“The courses were accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC) and relevant bodies. University vice-chancellors were not carried along.”
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