Minimum Age For Admission: Senate Sets To Amend Law
The Nigeria House of Senate is set to amend law on the minimum age for admission into the country’s tertiary institutions of learning. The senate will review and amend the law which currently allows applicants who are 16 and above to study in the schools.
Amidst criticism that underages are in the universities, colleges of education and polytechnics, stakeholders call on the federal government to increase the minimum age required for admission.
The chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Muntari Dandutse told newsmen that the upper chamber of the National Assembly would work on the new age requirement. He stated this while monitoring the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Abuja.
The lawmaker said, “What the minister said yesterday is that you have to be 18, and we are not against that because before you can enter primary school, you have to be 6, and before you enter secondary school, you have to be 12, so before you enter university, you have to be 18.”
“On a law to make 18 years the mandatory age for entry into higher education institutions in the country. The law is already there, but if it means to even take it and amend it to make sure we have a robust law, we are going to do that.”
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