Female Candidates Apply For Higher Education Than Male Counterpart- JAMB Registrar
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB has stated that most candidates applying for higher education are females.
Oloyede made this known at a reception in commemoration of the elevation of Dr Morufat Balogun to the rank of professor by the University of Ibadan.
According to him, a larger percentage of females than males now register for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), a computer-based standardised examination that his board conducts for prospective undergraduates in the country.
The former vice chancellor of the University of Ilorin said the education of every child, whether male or female, mattered, emphasising, however, that particular attention should be paid to the education of the girl-child.
“I believe that every child, male or female, deserves to be educated. At a point in time, we were not paying particular attention to girl-child education but facts available to me now indicate that we just must pay attention to the education of all children.
“The education of every child matters. If you look at the history of this (new) professor, you will see that the father has seven children, all daughters, and this has not taken anything away from him because you can see that they all are doctors, pharmacists and so on. And here is a professor of Genetics.
“This means that every child that we have, whether a boy or a girl, deserves to be educated and we should strive to educate them.”
