The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) at its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting, held on July 14, 2015 in Abuja, announced the adoption of a policy whereby candidates of universities with surplus applicants for the Unified Matriculation Examinations (UTME) are reassigned to other universities with lower number of candidates than their capacities.

According to the Registrar/CEO of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, the policy portends two benefits:

It will be beneficial to “needy Universities” that is universities with lower number of candidates than their capacities, as this will ensure that these universities will have more candidates to admit.

Candidates will have better chances for admission in the universities they are re-assigned to, contrary to situations where they would await admission in the universities of their first choices until the admission exercise closes and they forfeit admission in that session.

This policy has been implemented with immediate effect. And is currently being used to determine eligibility of candidates to write the Post-UTME in their respective choice institutions.

http://myschool.com.ng/school/news/38342/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-jamb-new-admission-policy-eligibility-regulation.html

Ok, well its a good idea but y would u force one to go to a particular school, make those schools in need sef go upgrade na, so pple would choos them

It's not in anyway a good idea, how would they take such step without informing the candidates earlier before now. Besides, jamb fails to look at the demerits of this policy.

Like moving an aspirant of Federal Uni to a Private Uni which portends huge amount of school fees.

Before a student could choose a university,he would have had an adequate knowledge about the school. That's why it is called school of ur choice and not school of jamb choice.


Dibu is very wrong on this.

Let's go to court of law to trash this out, you can't just trample on people's right and call it policy

so decamping student without their permission to a university were their school fees is extremly high is a good thing?

you know they cant afford it.

you are indirectly depriving them of education