Says institutions must only comply to existing
three admission pillars
Contrary to media reports that the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
has imposed the Point System Option (PSO)
on higher institutions as the new admission
guidelines for 2016 admission processes, the
examination body has distanced itself from
such report, describing it as a figment of the
imagination of its proponents. Speaking
exclusively with Saturday Telegraph yesterday,
the Head of JAMB’s Media and Information
Unit, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the
examination body at no point made such a
recommendation.
He noted that a section of the media had only
scooped the information from a presentation
to some education stakeholders by the JAMB
Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, which was
posted on the examination body’s website.
This is even as he added that as against the
report, JAMB would no longer issue any
admission letter to any candidate but would
ensure that the three admission pillars of
Merit,Catchment Area and the Education
Disadvantaged Areas must be observed by all
the higher institutions across the country.
He said: “It is irresponsible for any media to
have credited any information that did not
emanate from JAMB to us. JAMB did not
create any new admission guidelines. Some
people just went to our website to pick a
document which was presented to a session of
stakeholders comparing various admission
systems by different institutions. “No
university or polytechnic is instructed by
JAMB to adopt such a policy. In fact, we
won’t issue admission letter any longer as the
Minister has mandated us.
What we are to do is to provide admission list
and album to the institutions and ensure that
the 45 per cent for merit; 35 per cent for
catchment area and the 20 per cent for
education disadvantaged areas, are observed
to the letter. The universities are to issue
admission letters individually.”
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