• Board to introduce
flexible cut-off marks• Dismisses 12 officials over alleged fraud• Gives Nov.
30 as deadline for admissions
The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) says a large number of institutions in the country
have applied for a waiver to enable them admit candidates who scored below 180
marks in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
The
Guardian Nigeria report continues:
JAMB
Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who disclosed this yesterday in Owerri at the
second technical committee meeting on 2016 admission to tertiary schools, said
it was important to look into the issues to avoid the institutions closing
shop.
He
said: “A large number of institutions, particularly the budding ones, have
applied for a waiver to enable them admit candidates who in some instances
scored below 180 marks. For some, this may sound unreasonable with the largely
false impression that a large percentage of those who score above 180 and are
qualified for admission cannot find any placement in our institutions, but I
think this cry needs attention, otherwise, some of these institutions whether
public or privately-owned may soon begin to wobble or even close shop.
“This
will be counter-productive and even defeat the government policy of expansion
of access to higher education and manpower development.”
In
another development, the JAMB said it had dismissed 12 officials of the board
for allegedly conniving with some to dupe the institution of unspecified
millions of naira.
Also,
the board has directed all the public tertiary institutions to complete all the
admissions into 2016 session by November 30, 2016.
Oloyede
said: “After this, no public institution will be allowed to do any other
admission.
“Twelve
officials of JAMB, who connived with others, have been dismissed from service
and the diverted funds were being recovered.”
The
registrar said that the board is also planning to introduce flexible cut-off marks
for institutions, which have exhausted the list of candidates who scored 180
and above.
His
words: “Just this morning, we received a green light on flexible cut-off marks
only for institutions which have exhausted the list of candidates who scored
180 and above.
“In
addition, we have reopened the portal for change of institutions and courses so
that institutions and candidates can legitimately without any need for regularization
effect change of course at the point of entry rather than NYSC-inspired regularization
with attendant abuse. I have given a personal and official assurance to NYSC
that all abuse/loopholes have been blocked.”
According to him, up 50 per cent of admission quota for institutions in the country is wasted.
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