Montessori Instructor Challenges Age Limit for Tertiary Admission in Nigeria

A Montessori Instructor, Moyosoreoluwa Odegbayi, has suggested that age should not be a restriction to education acquisition, stressing that age is not a measure for academic competence, following the debate around the age for entry into institutions.

Odegbayi, who stated this in an interview with Dominion News, affirmed that age plays an important factor especially in identity formation, emphasizing the need for parents to help their children prepare rightly for their future.

Recall that, the Federal Government through the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, during the two thousand and twenty-five Policy Meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board held in Abuja formally set sixteen years as the minimum age for admission into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.