Admission Lists Of Various Tertiary Institutions To Be Validated By JAMB This Week
JAMB to Receive Lists of Candidates That Met Admission Criteria From Various Schools It has been announced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) that they have concluded arrangements to hold a technical meeting at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) from August 22 to August 26, 2016. According to the JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, …
JAMB to Receive Lists of Candidates That Met Admission Criteria From Various Schools
It has been announced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) that they have concluded arrangements to hold a technical meeting at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) from August 22 to August 26, 2016.
According to the JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, during the meeting, the board will receive the admission lists of candidates who had met the admission criteria from the various tertiary institutions (universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.)
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The Board will then go through the list with other stake holders to see if they comply with the admission criteria. If the board is satisfied with the outcome, it will ratify the lists and admission print-outs issued to the respective institutions.
Consequent upon that, the names of successful candidates would be uploaded on the website of the respective institutions for candidates to view and print their admission letters.
The admission letters will bear details such as admission status, school and course of study, and equally the duration of such course of study.
JAMB’s Earlier Released Admission Guidelines
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently issued guidelines for admission of candidates into federal, state and private universities in Nigeria for the 2016/2017 academic session. Announcement of the guidelines followed a week-long meeting held with administrators of universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The new set of guidelines which consist of some parameters called the Point System Option (PSO) authorizes tertiary institutions to charge fees for screening of candidates seeking admission through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE).
According to the guidelines, a candidate must have been offered provisional admission by JAMB before he/she could be considered for screening by an admitting institution. In the PSO guidelines, a candidate who submits only one Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) result which could be from WAEC, NECO or NABTEB earns ten points while another who combines two separate results earned after two sittings only earns two points, putting the latter at a disadvantage.
PSO also grades the credit level passes obtained by candidates in each subject into different points. These are A=6, B=4, and C=3; this limits the admission chances of a candidate with lower credit pass even though A, B, and C are all credit passes.
