AMMAN — Student admission in public universities should remain the remit of the
Unified Admission Coordination Unit at the
Ministry of Higher Education, and
not of individual universities, lawmakers stressed.
اضافة اعلان
Talib
Al-Sarayrah, head of the Parliamentary Education and Youth Committee in the
House of Representatives, rebuffed public calls that admission to state
universities be transferred to the institutions themselves, out of concerns
that “there would be nepotism and wasta”.
Currently, applicants, whether in Jordan or abroad,
are required to send their applications to the national committee. Student
admission is competitive and subject to conditions set by the Ministry of
Higher Education and Scientific Research.
“Public universities want to have a say in the
admission process, but they are not prepared to do that,” Sarayrah told
Jordan
News, expressing concern that people may be using connections to obtain
university admissions.
“The Ministry of Higher Education is responsible for
determining the mechanism for admission and communicating it to universities,”
Sarayrah said, stressing that turning the admission responsibility to the
higher education institutions will “burden them with additional work, which is
not their specialty”.
The student admission in all public universities
must remain the responsibility of the
Unified Admission Coordination Unit, he
stressed, because it “deals with all applications submitted for admission to
university with transparency and integrity, and enjoys great confidence”.
Sarayrah said that the idea of handing over
responsibility to universities was circulated at a recent meeting with the
ministry, which also confirmed that universities are not prepared, for now, to
deal with this.
Zaid Al-Bashayrah, assistant chairman of the
Accreditation Commission for Higher Education and Quality Institutions, said
the commission wants to see “procedures carried out with transparency, so that
justice is done to everyone”.
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