The Board took the decision at the 2021 policy meeting,
which was held virtually and chaired by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu
Adamu.
Speaking during the meeting, the Registrar of JAMB, Prof.
Is-haq Oloyede, said some universities, such as University of Maiduguri,
proposed 150 cut-off mark; Usman Dan Fodio University Sokoto proposed 140; Pan
Atlantic University proposed 210; University of Lagos, 200; Lagos State
University, 190; Covenant University, 190; and Bayero University, Kano, 180.
The stakeholders also approved October 29, 2021, as deadline
for the closure of amendments for 2021 admissions.
On the deadline for the closure of admissions, the
stakeholders resolved to allow the ministry to decide, as they could not agree
on the December 31, 2021, deadline for all public institutions, and January 31,
2022, for all public institutions.
The stakeholders also adopted the 2021 admission guidelines,
which provide that all applications for part time or full time programmes for
degree, NCE, OND, and others must be posted only through JAMB.
The meeting approved that for Direct Entry (DE), the maximum
score a candidate can present is six and the minimum is two or E as required by
law.
Speaking on other admission criteria, he said the
candidate’s credentials must be uploaded on CAPS and recommended by the
institution, while JAMB approves and the candidate accepts the offer of
admission.
The JAMB boss said if candidates haven’t accepted an offer,
the institution can change the candidate after informing JAMB.
Also approved at the policy were the guidelines that every
institution is at liberty to admit candidates based on its own minimum score
approved by the institution and the policy meeting.
The meeting also resolved that every institution should
maintain its own minimum score as approved by the policy meeting.
According to the stakeholders, the 2021 admissions will be
conducted only through CAPS, no institution is allowed to admit candidates
without uploading their details on CAPS.
Oloyede further disclosed that for 2021/2022 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Board is introducing two new
subjects- computer studies and physical and health education-bringing to a
total of 25 subjects.
The stakeholders also exempted prison inmates, visually
impaired and foreign candidates from sitting for post-UTME exercise.
Speaking on the 2020 admissions, Oloyede said out of the
956,809 admission spaces in the 962 higher education institutions in the
country, about 600,000 have so far been admitted.
While saying there are many admission spaces that have not
been filled up in several courses due to lack of qualified candidates, he said
private universities in the country were only able to admit 36,381 candidates
out of the 120,938 spaces available to them.
Declaring the policy meeting open, Minister of Education,
Adamu, commended JAMB for introducing the use of National Identification Number
(NIN) in the registration process for UTME.
Represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of
Education, Sonny Echono, the minister said the use of NIN drastically reduced
malpractice in the 2021 examinations, adding that the West African Examination
Council (WAEC) will also follow similar path by adopting mandatory use of NIN.
On illegal admissions being conducted by some tertiary
institutions, the minister expressed concerns that the government’s directive
that all admissions should be done through JAMB’s Central Admissions Processing
System (CAPS) is being violated.
He directed JAMB to furnish the government with the list of
affected institutions for necessary punishments.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on April 13, 2021,
inaugurated the visitation panels of 38 federal universities, four
inter-university centres, 25 polytechnics and 21 Colleges of Education to
review the performance of institutions.
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