The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, which began a meeting on Monday, has said it will formally announce a major new policy on Tuesday when the body is expected to conclude its ongoing deliberation.
The meeting, which involves admission officers of Nigerian higher institutions, is taking place at the National Judicial Institute in Abuja.
Issues being discussed at the meeting include the introduction of central admission processing system(CAPS) to ensure quality control, transparency and credibility of the admission process.
The new policy is expected to make provision for a ‘market place’ in the JAMB portal where institutions can go and ‘request for students in Nigeria who score their cut off points.’
These institutions will write to JAMB to request for the students and also give them (students) three days to respond. Also, only three universities can request for a candidate if the policy is adopted.
The new policy is also expected to allow institutions in Nigeria peg their cut off point after meeting with their respective senates.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the new policy will also give the academic board or senate of an institution the power to ‘allocate percentages to JAMB, the school and O’level results as these will be calculated to get the students’ cut off marks for post-UTME.’
It was also learnt that JAMB wants to ensure there is a unified time for closing admission in all universities.
If the policy sails through, there will be a portal for admission which will be based on cut off point,quota system and cachment areas.
Also, the policy intends to make provisions for candidates to accept and reject any admission being offered to them.
The intended policy also looks out for candidates who are unable to go for national youth service because they do not have admission letters.
One of the admission officers who was at the meeting told PREMIUM TIMES that this set of students will pay N10,000 naira for regularisation and would be able to go for service.
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