JAMB SCRAPS USE OF AWAITING RESULTS FOR ADMISSION
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andidates waiting for
their O’level results will no longer be offered or recommended for admission by
any institution effective from this year (2017), Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said.
The board also said
it has concluded all restructuring and reforms and is now ready to begin
sales of its application document in March.
The organization in a
statement on Tuesday in Abuja by its Head of Information, Dr.
Fabian Benjamin, said the restructuring is to expand the opportunities
available to candidates as almost all the public universities do not
consider candidates on the second choice list because they hardly exhaust their
first choice.
JAMB said it took the
decision because it found out that many institutions had offered candidates
admission in the past on merit only for them to discover that such candidates
do not have qualified O’level results for the admission and had to delete and
start the process all over again.
The organization said
it would ensure that no candidate is recommended for admission without his/her
O’levels result being supplied.
To
achieve this, JAMB said it would insist that candidates
supply their result on its website during registration or
later, but before admissions commences for them to be considered
for admissions.
This, the board said,
would allow only qualified candidates to be considered for
admissions.
The statement said:
“The summary is that no candidate will be admitted with awaiting
result.
In the cause of
conducting admission exercise, many institutions have admitted candidates on merit
only for them to discover that such candidates do not have
qualified O’levels results or the right combination for
admission and had to delete and start the process all over again. With this,
they would have denied other qualified candidates the opportunities for
admissions.
“This we are
addressing by ensuring that no candidate is henceforth recommended without
his O’levels result being supplied. To achieve this,
JAMB will insist that candidates supply their
result on its website during registration or later, but before
admissions commences for them to be considered for admissions. We
believe this will allow only qualified candidates to
be considered for admissions.
“Because we need a
different and progressive result that will position Nigerian educational system
in an enviable height in the comity of nations, then we must do things
differently. The Board is poised to see that a reasonable
percentage of candidates who take this examination and are qualified find
placement in tertiary institutions.
“Candidates and their
parents are also to note that the Board has restructured the registration
platform to allow for only one choice of Public University. The new
registration platform will now be first choice, second
choice, third choice and fourth choice and not most preferred,
preferred etc as it was.
“Candidates’
first choice can be a College, University, Innovative Enterprises
Institutions or Polytechnic/Monotechnic. However, if a candidate makes a Public
University his first choice, he will not have any public University
to choose for 2nd, 3rd and 4th choice. He will have
on the remaining three choices, a College, a Polytechnic, Private
University and IEI’S. However, candidates for the 2017 UTME can now
select NCE (College) or ND (Polytechnic/Monotechnic) as
their 1st choice up to 3rd choice and the
4th IEI. They can select the IEI (Innovative Enterprise
Institution, ND) as their 1st choice up to the 4th choice,
but can only pick a public university once.”
The board said it had
designed a Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) where it would interface
with institutions and ensure they complied with the reform.
“We sincerely
appreciate the patience exhibited by Nigerians in allowing us take time to
add value to the services we have been offering to Nigerians for over
three decades.
“We have designed a
Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) where the Board will interface with
the institutions and ensure the compliance of this reform. READ MORE
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