JAMB rebute admission cancellation rumour
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday 26 October expressed fears of candidates whose admission fate had been kept in the balance due to the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU).
The Board revealed that despite the strikes that had affected the academic calendar from 2020 till date, no offer of admission made by it to candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) had been cancelled.
The board however urged the affected candidates to relate with their institutions of choice to find out the session they were currently in.
Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede disclosed these shortly before he declared open the National Executive Council(NEC) meeting of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions(NASU) in Abuja.
He said the senate of universities was responsible for admission, adding that the role of JAMB was to supervise the process to ensure that candidates were not shortchanged.
According to Prof. Oloyede, the 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 sessions were being run by various universities.
According to him, while some universities are still in their 2020/2021 academic session, others are in the 2021/22 academic session and some universities in their 2022/2023 academic session.
Prof. Oloyede assured that no admission by the board has elapsed or will elapse, stressing that admission for any particular session would- be determined by the senate of the various universities.
Therefore, advised students seeking admission to contact the institution of their choice on the session being run by the school.
In his words: “The onus of admitting students lie on the respective institutions. JAMB is a coordinating centre. JAMB cannot and will not determine how institutions calendar. You are aware that universities and special institutions are still in their 2020/2021 academic session. Some are on the 2021/2022 academic session and some are on the 2022/2023 academic session.
“We have three academic sessions running in universities in different parts of the country. My advice is that candidates should interact with their respective institutions to know which session is going on and contact JAMB only on
“No admission has been cancelled for any session, or for any institutions except the senate of that institution says so.
“We have all admissions for these three sessions and they have not lapsed and they will not lapse and it is now for the institutions to determine which and how to go about it.”
Source; The Nation
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