2024 UTME Results: Unveils Nigeria's Education Crisis
2024 UTME Results: Unveils Nigeria's Education Crisis
Explore the recently released 2024 UTME results revealing that less than 1% of candidates scored 300 and above. Join us as we analyze the staggering statistics unveiled by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). With over 1.9 million candidates sitting the exam, discover the implications of the 64,624 withheld results and the…
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The lady there, though an educator, seems a bit ignorant of the real problem. The problem is that JAMB is an aptitude test, (higher than O-Level) but there's no formal training structure for it. Government schools have no CBT facilities to train candidates. To compound the problem, government schools have a very low teachers to students ratio. Plus, most public schools just have 1 or 2 English language teachers, for a population of students sometimes running to 2000! This is in spite of the fact that academic contents and exams are based on that language! The little growth one sees in the Nigerian basic and secondary education sector comes, mostly, from expensive private schools!