The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it
has concluded arrangements for the presentation of awards to five tertiary
institutions at its maiden edition of the 2018 National Tertiary Admissions
Performance Merit Award (NATAP-M).
The board’s Head, Media, and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin,
made the disclosure to the newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.
According to Benjamin, the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo, would be doing the presentation on Thursday in Abuja. The JAMB’s
spokesman noted that the award was in recognition of the institutions’
compliance to admission guidelines.
“We want to honour these institutions for doing what is
expected of them in the past years, in terms of admission performance.
“Again, we looked at the most subscribed, the number of
foreigners admitted, gender balancing and national spread.
“You know some tertiary institutions will like to localise
their admission by narrowing it down to candidates from their locality,”
Benjamin said.
“All such practice does not give our institutions the
deserved exposure and competition as obtained in institutions in other climes.
“This is also partly the reason such institutions cannot attract foreign
scholars.
“It is also the reason why most of them find it difficult to
breakthrough in terms of global ranking, aside research and other
considerations.
“We want to encourage our institutions to be having global
out look and we believe that with this kind of awards, things will change for
good.”
He said that expected at the award ceremonies were Pro
Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors of Universities, as well as Provosts of Colleges
of Education and Rectors of Polytechnics.
(NAN)
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