Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan

Senate of University of Ibadan has asked no fewer than 408 students of the university to withdraw from the school for failure to meet the minimum academic requirements to stay in the university.

The body ratified the withdrawal at its meeting where results of graduating and non-graduating students were considered and approved.

It was gathered that three-quarter of those asked to leave the university are those in 100 level admitted into the university without writing Post-UTME screening examinations.

It would be recalled that the university admitted a total of 3,483 for the 2016/2017 session when there was opposition to the conduct of post-UTME screening.

However while speaking with journalists, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), Mr Adeyinka Aderinto, said the university would continue to uphold its standards despite dwindling funding to the university by adhering to global standards.

He then charged parents of returning students to the university to ensure that they monitor their wards who have been asked to withdraw do not lie to them and continue to extort money in the name of being a student of the university.

According to him, the conduct of UI model of Post-UTME screening has helped to separate ‘men from boys’ and the institution in maintaining its historical standard as a global brand.

He said, “The university is determined to uphold standards. We are saying that being admitted to the University of Ibadan is a rare privilege that requires students to be up and doing in their studies. There are minimum academic requirements a student must meet at the end of the session and those who fall short of that would have to leave the university. UI has been able to invent her own model of screening applicants and it has shown that those who we screened performed far better than those not subjected to our screening after taking JAMB.”