JAMB FIRES WARNING SHOTS AT INSTITUTIONS!

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede on
Friday said the agency will ensure candidates
are not mistreated by their preferred universities.
He also listed eight conditions that tertiary
institutions must follow when admitting students.
Mr. Oloyede spoke at Baze University, Jabi,
Abuja at the first Extraordinary Technical
Committee meeting on 2016 Admissions to First
Choice Institutions.
He said the only difference in this year’s
admission process is the policy that there should
be no written post-UTME test.
Mr. Oloyede insisted that as a referee, his
agency would not allow arbitrariness by
institutions in the admission process.
“JAMB will resist such arbitrariness and illegal
introduction of extraneous factors which were
not contained in the published advertisement
made available to the candidates.
“We should be able to explain to every Nigerian
child who had applied for admission, why s/he
was not admitted into his/her institution of
choice,” he said.
According to him, the right of Senate or
Academic Board of each institution on
admissions of candidates is subject to the
following conditions:
1. Guidelines stipulated by proprietors of the
institutions
2. 60:40 (Science/Art) ratio for conventional
universities
3. 80:20 (Science/Art) ratio for non-conventional
universities
4. 70:30 (Technology/Non-technology) ratio for
National Diploma Awarding Institutions
5. Use of 2016 JAMB, UTME results’ print-out for
all candidates
6. Adherence to published subject combinations
of various courses as specified by the Senate/
Academic Board and included in the 2016 JAMB
brochure
7. Adherence to the 2016 Admissions quota as
prescribed by the Regulatory Bodies (NUC, NBTE,
NCCE)
8. (For Federal universities) The quota stipulated
by the Federal Executive Council concerning
Merit, Catchment and Educationally less
developed states, should be complied with.
Mr. Oloyede stated that the deadline for
approved institutions’ admission panels was still
November 30, 2016.
He also said the second Technical Committee
Meeting would take place at Alvan Ikoku Federal
College of Education, Owerri, Imo state on
November 14, 2016.


Source :naijaloaded
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE