JAMB WON’T EXTEND NOV. 30
DEADLINE FOR ADMISSIONS, SAYS OLOYEDE
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he Nov. 30 deadline for conclusion
of admissions into higher institutions for 2016 remains effective, the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said on Friday.
The Registrar of the board, Prof.
Is-haq Oloyede, reaffirmed the deadline in Abuja in his address at the opening
of an Extra-Ordinary Technical Committee Meeting on 2016 Admissions to First
Choice Institutions.
The meeting held at the Baze
University, Abuja. He said that the meeting was an indication that the board
was ready to attend to legitimate requests of its stakeholders and clients in
the collective quest for efficiency.
Oloyede said that JAMB would be
flexible except in cases where flexibility would be unethical or inimical to
national interest.
According to him, the meeting is in
line with the board’s pledge to be consultative and all-inclusive in the
discharge of its functions.
“The First Technical Committee
Meeting was held in Bayero University, Kano, from Aug. 22 to Aug. 26, where
institutions were expected to make submissions for their first choice
admissions to admissions’ panels at the technical sessions.
“However, some institutions informed
the meeting that they were not ready to make submissions as internal processes
leading to the exercise had not been completed.
“The affected institutions requested
for an earlier special date than the date for the Second Technical Committee
Meeting scheduled for Nov. 14 in Owerri, Imo State,’’ he said.
Oloyede said that he expected the
institutions represented at the meeting to be prepared to make presentations of
their recommended candidates to the board. He said that the meeting was
primarily for placement of suitably qualified candidates into tertiary
institutions.
“As such, I need to re-state my
earlier submission that the senate and the academic boards of the institutions
have the primary responsibility of recommending candidates to the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board for admissions.
“JAMB will not initiate or insert
any candidates but will, as expected, ensure that no candidate is unjustly
treated by any institution.
“The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board is thus a referee for justice, equity and standards,” he
said.
The registrar said that the only
difference in the 2016 admissions process was the policy that there should be
no written post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination test.
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