The Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has fixed minimum cut off marks for
Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.
The minimum
cut off marks for admissions into universities in Nigeria was set for 120,
polytechnics and colleges of education pegged at 100, while that of innovative
enterprising institutes was pegged at 110.
Institutions
are, however, at liberty to raise their cut off marks for admission above the
minimum set by JAMB.
Also,
admissions into public degree awarding institutions for the 2017 UTME
examination will end on January 15, 2018 while for private institutions, it
ends on January 31, 2018.
Also,
decisions on first choice candidates by universities will end on October 15,
and second choice candidates will end on December 15; after which the remaining
students will be available in the market place for other institutions till the
January closing dates.
These
decisions were taken at the 2017 Combined Policy Meetings on Admissions into
Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria which ended on Tuesday.
The
Registrar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, said a Central Admission Processing System,
CAPS, will be used to streamline admission processes among institutions, as it
addresses challenges associated with the former approach.
Mr. Oloyede
also said that Institutions could conduct dual mode system which involves both
manual and the newly introduced CAPS.
He advocated
a dynamic educational policy as related to admissions.
“All over
the world, there is agitation for dynamic educational policy,” he said. “JAMB
only admits for National Diploma, not Higher National Diploma; so why should we
use the same requirement for ND and BSC, that is unreasonable parity.”
“We should
not be sentimental in fixing our cut off mark; we need not over-dramatise issue
of cut off mark.”
He said
candidates’ applications to study agriculture was very low while applications
to study medicine and health sciences increased.
Speaking on
illegal admissions, he said the process is now automated because the Registrar
of JAMB must approve all candidates.
“About 17,160
students were admitted without JAMB across institutions in Nigeria,” he said.
The Minister
of Education, Adamu Adamu, also formerly announced a lift of the ban on the
conduct of Post-UTME examination as a prerequisite for admission into tertiary
institutions.
“Cancellation
of Post- UTME is a mistake,” he said.
He noted
that banning of post-UTME led to a lot of irregularities by candidates and some
institutions.
The minister
explained that with the lifting of the ban on the conduct of the examination,
institutions are now at liberty to conduct, while adding that fee for the
examination should not exceed N2000.
He explained
that the 2016 admission process was a huge success, while expressing optimism
that government is working assiduously to make that of 2017 better.
Mr. Adamu
noted that government is also making efforts to expand access and ensure
equality in the education sector.
He expressed
optimism that a substantial number of candidates who sat for the 2017 UTME
would gain admission into tertiary institution.
“Over 1.6
million candidates applied for degree courses, over 17,000 for ND as well as
NCE,” he said.
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