The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Has finally released the cut off mark for universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other enterprises. The body has set the minimum cut of marks for all tertiary institutions.  The university cut off marks for admission is to be 120,www. lipscanereadersfraternity.blogspot.com
The minimum for polytechnics and
colleges of education pegged at 100, while that of
innovative enterprising institutes was pegged at 110.
Institutions are, however, at liberty to raise their cut off
marks for admission above the minimum set by JAMB.
Also, admissions into public degree awarding
institutions for the 2017 UTME examination will end on
January 15, 2018 while for private institutions, it ends
on January 31, 2018.
Also, decisions on first choice candidates by universities
will end on October 15, and second choice candidates
will end on December 15; after which the remaining
students will be available in the market place for other
institutions till the January closing dates.
These decisions were taken at the 2017 Combined Policy
Meetings on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in
Nigeria which ended on Tuesday.
The Registrar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, said a Central
Admission Processing System, CAPS, will be used to
streamline admission processes among institutions, as it
addresses challenges associated with the former
approach.
Mr. Oloyede also said that Institutions could conduct
dual mode system which involves both manual and the
newly introduced CAPS.
He advocated a dynamic educational policy as related to
admissions.
“All over the world, there is agitation for dynamic
educational policy,” he said. “JAMB only admits for
National Diploma, not Higher National Diploma; so why
should we use the same requirement for ND and BSC,
that is unreasonable parity.”
“We should not be sentimental in fixing our cut off
mark; we need not over-dramatise issue of cut off
mark.”
He said candidates’ applications to study agriculture was
very low while applications to study medicine and
health sciences increased.
Speaking on illegal admissions, he said the process is
now automated because the Registrar of JAMB must
approve all candidates.
“About 17,160 students were admitted without JAMB
across institutions in Nigeria,” he said.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, also formerly
announced a lift of the ban on the conduct of Post-UTME
examination as a prerequisite for admission into tertiary
institutions.
“Cancellation of Post- UTME is a mistake,” he said.
He noted that banning of post-UTME led to a lot of
irregularities by candidates and some institutions.
The minister explained that with the lifting of the ban
on the conduct of the examination, institutions are now
at liberty to conduct, while adding that fee for the
examination should not exceed N2000.
He explained that the 2016 admission process was a
huge success, while expressing optimism that
government is working assiduously to make that of 2017
better.
Mr. Adamu noted that government is also making efforts
to expand access and ensure equality in the education
sector.
He expressed optimism that a substantial number of
candidates who sat for the 2017 UTME would gain
admission into tertiary institution.
“Over 1.6 million candidates applied for degree courses,
over 17,000 for ND as well as NCE,” he said.
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