July 19, 2012
By Chibson Chukwu-
Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
Awka has applied to the National
Universities Commission, NUC, for
approval to admit about 9,000 fresh
students in the next academic
session. Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof
Boniface Egboka, at a briefing
described as pitiable, a situation
where out of over 80,000 candidates
who participated in the post-UTME and
were qualified to gain admission, only about 3,700 would be admitted. According to him, the institution had
been following strictly the admission
guidelines of 60:40 for science and
arts courses as directed by the Federal
Government, as well as the stipulated
percentages for merit, catchment and disadvantaged areas, but insisted
that there was need to give the youths
who desire tertiary education more
opportunities. Using the faculties of medicine and
law as examples, Egboka said out of
the 2,000 candidates that scored up to
291 in the matriculation examination
and were qualified to study medicine
and surgery, only 100 would make it, while only 180 students would be
admitted for law out of 3000 that
scored above 280.
