{"id":5352,"date":"2025-07-08T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:10:33","slug":"fg-pegs-university-admission-age-at-16-as-asuss-lauds-fg-for-new-admission-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/fg-pegs-university-admission-age-at-16-as-asuss-lauds-fg-for-new-admission-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Pegs University Admission Age At 16 ……. As ASUSS lauds FG for new admission requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By George Mgbeleke<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Education Minister, Dr Tunji Alausa, has said that the federal government has pegged the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions at 16 years.<\/div>\n
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Alausa spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the 2025 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.<\/div>\n
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\u201dThis policy decision reflects a balance between cognitive maturity and academic preparedness. 16 years is non-negotiable,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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He noted that provisions existed for clearly documented and justified exceptions like gifted children with accelerated educational progress.<\/div>\n
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He warned institutions against attempting to circumvent the rule by altering age records, stressing that such acts would attract sanctions.<\/div>\n
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The minister also unveiled new measures to curb the scourge of examination malpractices, which he described as a \u201ccancer\u201d undermining merit and eroding confidence in Nigeria\u2019s education system.<\/div>\n
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He announced the establishment of a Central Examination Malpractice Unit within the Federal Ministry of Education, noting that that would be chaired by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Abel Enitan.<\/div>\n
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He added that the unit would serve as a national clearing house for documenting and reporting malpractices cases across all levels of education.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis central database will be accessible to all institutions. It is our hope that this will reduce the tendency to engage in malpractices, as offenders will be appropriately tried under the Exam Malpractices Act,\u201d the minister said.<\/div>\n
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He also confirmed the government\u2019s support for WAEC and NECO to adopt computer-based testing to curb malpractices.<\/div>\n
Meanwhile the\u00a0 Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), in Osun State has commended the Federal Government for pegging the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions at 16 years.<\/div>\n
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Recall that the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, during the 2025 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, pegged the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions at 16 years.<\/div>\n
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Reacting via a phone conversation with our correspondent in Osogbo, on Tuesday, the State Chairman, ASUSS, Adediran Segun,said the move will prevent students from being exposed to different social vices.<\/div>\n
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He however, urged parents to be patient with the system, stressing the country’s educational structure has been programmed in a way that will not allow students below 16 years to pursue admission at higher institutions.<\/div>\n
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He said, \u201c I commend the Federal Government for taking sure decision. One of the issues we have is that most parents are being patient, they want their children to graduate before 19 years which will in one way or the order after these students.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Nigeria educational system has been programmed in a way that if properly followed there is now way you’ll have an underage students at our universities, because these students below 16 could be exposed to various soicial vices and pressures.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By George Mgbeleke \u00a0Education Minister, Dr Tunji Alausa, has said that the federal government has pegged the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions at 16 years. Alausa spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the 2025 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. \u201dThis policy decision reflects a balance between cognitive maturity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[278,3479,1219,783,2110,1154,3478],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-admission","tag-age","tag-examination","tag-exposed","tag-malpractices","tag-minimum","tag-pegged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}