2020 UMTE: Warning to Candidates and Institutions on Using JAMB CAPS Portal
Latest: Warning to Candidates and Institutions on Using JAMB CAPS Portal The Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) is an automated platform for all institutions to conduct their admissions. This system engenders transparency, accountability and inclusiveness devoid of human interference. Institutions are the major actors with the sole authority to recommend candidates for admission while the …
Latest: Warning to Candidates and Institutions on Using JAMB CAPS Portal
The Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) is an automated platform for all institutions to conduct their admissions. This system engenders transparency, accountability and inclusiveness devoid of human interference.
Institutions are the major actors with the sole authority to recommend candidates for admission while the board supervises by ensuring that all candidates are fairly, equitably and transparently treated.
Consequently, the conduct of admission by institutions on their portals is a flagrant abuse of CAPS which is the only credible avenue for institutions to conduct admissions.
Any admission into First Degree, National Certificate of Education, National Diploma and National Innovative Diploma (Part-Time and Sandwich inclusive) not on the official letterhead of the board or outside CAPS is Null and Void and would not be condoned by JAMB.
Institutions are to note that admitting candidates outside CAPS would jeopardise candidate’s participation in the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) mobilisation exercise or any job placement which requires the certification or endorsement of the board.
Earlier: Report Anyone Charging Above the Approved Fees – JAMB Tells Candidates
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede has stated that any official found selling the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) forms to applicants above the official price of N4,000 would be arrested and prosecuted by the personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
He said that candidates charged above the approved fee by any selling outlet including private Computer Based Test (CBT) centres and banks should report to the nearest NSCDC office.
He made this known during an interactive meeting with stakeholders at the NSCDC Headquarters in Abuja According to him, the N3,290 out of the N4,000 paid by the applicant was for the form, N500 for booklet while N210 was deducted as bank charge.
The Registrar further disclosed that, so far one bank, as well as several CBT centres and schools in Anambra, Delta, Bayelsa, Enugu, Rivers and Adamawa, were found to have increased the amount and that punitive measures were taken against them.
One suspect, allegedly selling forms above N4,000 in Warri, Delta state was paraded at the event. In his remarks, NSCDC Commandant-General, Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, said state commandants involved in the UTME exercise who violated the trust reposed in them would have themselves to blame. He said, “Nigerians have confidence in you, don’t betray it. If you mess up, I will send you out.”
Earlier: JAMB Warns Candidates Against Accepting Admission Outside CAPS
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates against accepting any admission that does not pass through its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) as any offer of admission not validated on JAMB’S profile page or offered through the CAPS is invalid.
According to JAMB, there have been complaints from the general public that three Public Universities have devised a method of “offering admission” to candidates outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) on their own designated portals.
JMB described this as a deliberate act done with the intent to lure unsuspecting candidates to accept other programmes (courses) aside from their programmes (courses) of choice.
The board re-emphasised that the CAPS system is designed among other things to:
- prevent institutions from unilaterally changing or proposing a candidate for admission into other programmes (courses) other than his/her chosen one;
- disallow an institution to skip a higher ranking candidate to pick a less ranking candidate;
- allow an institution to recommend a substitute programme for the consent or rejection by a relatively low-ranking candidate who is not likely to secure a place in his/her initial programme; and
- allow a low-ranking candidate on each programme to, on his or her own, opt-out of consideration from the initial programme and be considered for a programme where he/she ranks high enough to be considered.
It, therefore, warned that any candidate who accepts such an offer of admission does so at his or her own risk as there will be no regularisation of any irregular or illegal admission.
The board added that appropriate caution has been given to these universities which are to promptly withdraw and desist from such illegitimate action and any of such act will henceforth be visited with appropriate sanctions
