The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has
stopped universities and other tertiary institutions in the country running
degree programmes from directly admitting candidates on their sandwich,
distance learning, part-time and other programmes.
The board insisted that henceforth, all admissions to the
various programmes in the nation’s higher institutions must be processed
through it, warning the institutions against flouting the new rule.
“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board would no
longer condone any illegal/ irregular admission by any institution,” JAMB
announced in its weekly news bulletin, released on Monday through its Head of
Media and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin.
According to the bulletin, the cessation of the “illegal
admissions” was contained in an advisory issued by the Board.”
“The advisory further made it clear that the new hardline
position taken by the Board was informed by the quantum of applications
received for candidates for condonement of illegal admissions popularly known
by candidates as ‘Regularisation’ adding that such ignoble acts would no longer
be tolerated by the Board.
“The advisory further reiterated that all applications for
admissions to First Degree, National Diploma, National Innovation Diploma and
the Nigeria Certificate in Education into Full-Time, Distance Learning,
Part-Time, Outreach, Sandwich, etc., must be processed only through the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).Consequently, institutions which are
still involved in advertising or selling “application forms” for admissions
into the programmes listed above were advised to desist forthwith,” the
bulletin read.
The bulletin further read: ”The advisory, therefore,
enjoined institutions to advise their candidates to apply to them through the
Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), adding that
duplication of application forms is also not allowed.
On the other hand, candidates are to ensure that any
admission issued to them by any institution is routed through the Board even
before considering to accept such offers.
“The advisory stated that the Board would not succumb to
pressure from any quarter to clear any candidate for the NYSC or other
essential needs if he/she had accepted any admission from any institution which
did not follow laid down regulations as emphasized above.
“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the
three Regulatory Agencies: (National Universities Commission (NUC), National
Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and National Commission for Colleges of
Education (NCCE) will ensure that all Tertiary Institutions comply with this
policy directive.
“Other Professional Regulatory Agencies are also expected to
play critical roles in sanitising the process. In the same vein, the Board
restated the need to streamline academic standards and maintained that the
duration of all Non- Full Time Studies must be maintained as approved by the
Regulatory Agencies.
This, he said, is generally not less than one hundred and
fifty percent (150%) of the equivalence of Full Time.
“Institutions which desire to place advertisement to source
for candidates can do so but they have to advise potential candidates,
beginning from those who sat the current UTME (or DE candidates), to change to
or pick these institutions as First (1st) Choice rather than the tortuous route
of requesting candidates to purchase another application form. This, the
advisory noted would prevent the issue of double registration.”
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