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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB, has said it will re-distribute candidates
who scored above 280 but whose scores are less
than cut-off-marks of their first choice
universities to needy institutions .
This is contained in a statement signed by the
Head, Media and Publicity of the board, Fabian
Benjamin, and made available to journalists on
Sunday in Lagos.
It said that the recent admission policy witnessed
at the University of Lagos was aimed at ensuring
that Nigerian universities admit only the top-best
as was done globally.
It would be recalled that candidates and their
parents had on Wednesday, July 22, staged a
peaceful protest at the University of Lagos gate
over the high cut-off marks for 2015/2016 post-
UTME screening.
“Sequel to this development, the board has
redistributed the other candidates with cut-off
marks less than what their first choice required to
needy institutions.
“The board, equally, urges candidates and their
parents to check its website from Friday, July 31,
2015 for their names and institutions they are
placed in,’’ the statement said.
According to the statement, universities are
centres of excellence anywhere in the world and
that of Nigeria should not be an exception.
It said that JAMB was working round the clock to
ensure that Nigerian universities were among the
best in Africa and perhaps the world in the next
ranking.
The statement explained that the board was also
cautious about utilizing the available spaces in
admitting more candidates bearing in mind the
admission criteria of various needy institutions.
“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) has reiterated that the national cut-off
marks of 180 for universities.
“We also have 150 for Polytechnics, Colleges of
Education and Innovative Enterprise institutions in
the 2015 UTME as a bench mark to set the tone
for 2015 admission exercise.
“The decision to have a national accepted cut-off
mark at the policy meeting was to serve as a
guide and pruning mechanism.
“It will also give the tertiary institutions
qualitative and manageable candidates to choose
from a pool of candidates desirous of tertiary
education.
“However, universities and other levels of tertiary
institutions are at liberty to go higher, but not
lower, depending on their peculiarities and the
performance of candidates that choose them,’’ it
explained.
The statement added that the board wished to
state that no candidate would be denied any right
to aspire to tertiary education.
According to the statement, the board is equally
aware that some universities have their own
admission cut-off marks acceptable by the board
for the various courses they offered.
“Please be informed that the board will always
ensure that these institutions apply this cut-off
marks uniformly across all candidates without
discrimination.
“The decision of the board on the print-out for
this year exercise was done in good faith and not
to jeopardize the right of candidates due to
individual cut-off set by some Nigerian tertiary
institutions.
“Those candidates who do not meet the cut-off
marks of such institutions will be placed in needy
institutions within their geo-political zone
depending on available spaces in such
institutions.
“The board’s aim is to accommodate as many
candidates as possible instead of just pushing
them to schools we know abinitio does not have
the carrying capacity to admit all,’’ the statement
said
The statement asked that if UNILAG, with a
carrying capacity of about 9,000 candidates, has
over 60,000 applying to it, what happens to the
over 50,000 others?
It said that in such occasion, the board would
ensure that there was balance by ensuring that
those remaining candidates who were not too
fortunate to meet the cut-off marks were also
placed in other needy institutions.
According to the statement, candidates are to
note that the policy is only meant to ensure that
every candidate with a reasonable score of 180
and above is placed somewhere.
It added that Nigerians were also urged to believe
in the board as it continually strives to give the
entire education system the best.
“We are not comfortable with the large number of
candidates that sits for the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME), year in year
out without gaining admission.
“It is the belief of the board that this policy will
address the shortfall and accommodate more,”
the statement said. |
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