Acceptance fee should be abolished in schools’, students yearn
Our tertiary institutions have over the years, found a legal way to extort students who ordinarily find it difficult to pay for their school fees after they’ve been granted admission.
You will agree with me that the number of students granted admission per year is low compared to the number of students who applied. Most times, students go as far as paying a stipulated amount just to secure admission.
According to reports made by Allafrica.com, no fewer than one million students seeking admission through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, every year have failed to get slots in tertiary institutions in Nigeria as the system cannot admit more than 600,000 in any given year.
With 158 universities and 115 polytechnics, colleges of education and monotechnics, their carrying capacity is still slightly above 600,000. Meanwhile, an average of 1.6 million UTME candidates register for entrance examination yearly.
After going through the pains of waking up late at night to read, paying much to get tutored, after all this, you’re being admitted and later asked to pay in other to accept the admission given to you.
I suggest that after a student has secured an admission, which cannot be possible without purchase of the application form, such student shouldn’t be mandated to pay any amount to accept the admission given to him/her by their school authorities
You telling me to pay for an acceptance fee is telling me to pay to accept my admission given to me in good faith by the school authorities who found me worthy of such admission.
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