JAMB Gives Nov 30 Deadline For Admissions

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has said the Board would guarantee the finish of the 2016/2017 induction into tertiary organizations by the affirmed due date of November 30. 

Oloyede, the quick past Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, gave this
affirmation last Monday while pronouncing open the 2016 Technical Committee Meeting on Admission into the First Choice of Institutions at the Bayero University, Kano. 

At the meeting went to by Admission Officers of tertiary foundations in the nation, Oloyede guaranteed them that the Board would not usurp their forces to concede. 

The JAMB Registrar said affirmation would just be founded on indicated national arrangements. 

"It must be made completely clear that the undertaking of JAMB is coordination and not substitution of the customary duties of the Senates/Academic Boards of tertiary foundations. 

"Therefore, no applicant must exude from whatever other source (JAMB comprehensive) outside the rundown arranged and prescribed by the foundations. Frame has the privilege to reject possibility for rebelliousness with surviving tenets and directions yet won't be permitted to substitute or start any names without the earlier simultaneousness of the establishments" he said. 

Oloyede recorded the national approaches to include: rules stipulated by the proprietors of the establishments; 60:40 (Science/Arts) proportion for traditional colleges; 80:20 (Science/Arts) proportion for non-routine colleges; 70:30 (Technology/Non-Technology) proportion for National Diploma Awarding Institutions; Use of 2016 JAMB UTME results printouts for all applicants who scored 180 or more; adherence to subject blends of different courses as indicated by the Senate/Academic Board and incorporated into the 2016 UTME Brochure; adherence to the 2016 Admissions Quota as recommended by the administrative bodies (NUC/NBTE/NCCE); and for Federal colleges, the criteria stipulated by the Federal Executive Council concerning Merit, Catchment and Educationally Less Developed States. 

"In the release of this national task, it is essential that we demonstration with spotlight on what is useful to the biggest number of Nigerians. We should abstain from adding to the weight of the masses of our kin who appropriately long for advanced education as a veritable method for dynamic support out in the open life," he assist focused. 

While encouraging Admission Officers to buckle down and display duty, collaboration and participation amongst JAMB and their different organizations, Oloyede guaranteed them that he would fortify the work of his ancestors, particularly Prof. 'Dibu Ojerinde, who lifted the Board to an advantageous standard of universal notoriety.