Thousands of candidates who sat for this year’s post-university matriculation examinations (Post-UME) while lecturers were on strike may have written the examination in vain.
This is as the workers have denied being part of the exercise.
Briefing newsmen at a conference called by the Ibadan Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU, at the Lagos State University, Ojo, the Zonal Coordinator, Adesola Nassir, alleged that some schools hastily conducted the examination in order to make money from the candidates.
The Ibadan Zone of ASUU comprises University of Lagos (UNILAG), University of Ibadan (UI), Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Lagos State University (LASU), University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB), and Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED).
Nasir, while speaking described the action as “an abnormality.”
” How can you hold such an important examination without the input of academic staff,” he asked rhetorically.
“Vice-chancellors are employing non-academic staff and consultant to do Post-UME. They are doing it because of money. The exam already constitutes a crisis-point in the universities.”
According to him, “results from the examination may be jettisoned.”
The stance of ASUU will no doubt cause tension among prospective students, parents and the affected universities.
The post-UME exams started in 2005 after universities protested about the falling standard of government-organized Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
