Registrar of
the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has
described the notion that the capacity of Nigerian universities was far
below
the number of candidates that qualify for admission in a particular academic
year as untrue.
The JAMB
helmsman thus challenged the agencies that regularly churn out such figures to
justify them or quit misinforming Nigerians and inciting them against the
board.
Oloyede, on
the sidelines of the 2016 Higher Education Summit in Abuja on Monday, said:
“The fact that 1.5 million candidates sat for JAMB exams in a particular year
does not translate to same figure qualifying for admission. It is only those
with the requisite 180 cut-off marks, as stipulated by the admission
guidelines, that would be considered. Even among the candidates that scored
180, a significant number of them might not have five credits required for
varsity admission,” he said.
Meanwhile, the
Minister of State for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwuka, has mandated JAMB to,
henceforth, publish the full list of unutilised admission slots into all
tertiary institutions on a course-by-course basis at the end of the first leg
of the admission process, to enable candidates and parents take full advantage
of existing admission vacancies in institutions where they exist.
The minister
stressed that the transparency would prevent a situation where some
institutions have more than the number of students they need, while others
struggle to fill their quota. He, however, advised parents not to keep their
wards at home for having not secured admission into a particular institution or
course of their choice, but to have them in school while they await admission
into their school and courses of choice.
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