The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede has joined calls for mathematics and English not to be made compulsory for select prospective students seeking admissions into colleges of education.
Oloyede was speaking in Abuja at the opening of a three-day summit on repositioning colleges of education by the academic staff union of colleges of education and Committee of provosts.
In the last three decades, with the proliferation of private universities and polytechnics, subscription into colleges of education has become abysmal.
JAMB registrar and COEASU president Nuhu Ogirima are using this summit on repositioning colleges of education to make strong cases to attract more interest in teacher education. programmes.
Participants at the summit also identified that beyond the admission challenges in colleges of Education, a myriad of the plague the sub-sector, giving way for increasing poorly qualified teachers.
The three-day summit is expected to develop a communique that will assist to reposition the colleges of education for improved efficiency and effectiveness