The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has revealed that no candidate has been asked to choose polytechnics and colleges of education as the second choice but insisted only 7 per cent of applicants at Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, seek polytechnic education.
The JAMB Registrar noted that all tertiary institutions are treated equally while demand and supply influence to certain institutions is perceived as a lower cut-off mark for polytechnic and colleges of education admissions.
Oloyede was speaking alongside former Kano State Governor and Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau, at a Roundtable Advocacy Campaign on the future of Polytechnics in Nigeria.
Other speakers including the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education called for more funding of technology to embrace modern approaches.
The conference, which was organised by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, is seeking solutions to the plethora of challenges facing technical and vocational education as well as training in Nigeria.