Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has assured that the Board will improve the situation of the Colleges of Education by re-addressing their admission processes.
Oloyede stated this at a three-day Stakeholders Summit on “Repositioning the Colleges of Education for improved efficiency and effectiveness.”
The JAMB registrar also advocated the exclusion of Mathematics as part of the requirements for candidates seeking admission in Arts and Humanity courses in the Colleges of Education (COEs).
Oloyede said the major issue and the problem is systemic because “if you require an applicant to have mathematics and Physics to study Yoruba, Hausa, Igho or Arabic, I think that is the problem.
”We need to be realistic about issues of prerequisite requirements.”
He, however, identified informal route of admitting candidates into the COEs as a major challenge affecting the system.
The JAMB boss, therefore, warned major actors to be sincere about the admission processes into the COEs.
While also stressing the importance of the teaching profession, Oloyede noted that “a lot of steps have been taken towards the enhancement” as he called for genuine implementation of a reward system that would be favourable to all teachers.
According to him, ”A lot of steps have been taken towards enhancement of the teaching profession. I look forward to actualisation of those steps. I believe that teachers are in this condition because of the reward system and the reward system is unfavourable to the teachers partly because of the huge numbers of teachers involved. If we can genuinely raise a reward system for teachers, a number of steps have been announced by Federal Government.
“If those steps are actualised and adequately implemented, there will be problem in implementation because it will generate another raise to 70 years”
Oloyede added that what was required was the coordination and refinement of the implementation process to avoid counter-productivity.