JAMB modifies procedures for 2016/2017 admission seekers
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) recently announced that it
has modified its procedure for candidates
seeking admission to the nation’s tertiary
institutions in the 2016-2017 academic
session.
The Chief Information Officer of the board,
Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made this known on
Monday 26th of October. He told newsman
that the board hSA introduced the
‘preferred choice’ platform in its portal to
enable candidates have wider opportunities
of securing admission.
The sale of admission form for the session
commenced on September 30 and it will
end on January 30, 2016. He said, “what
we did initially was that you only have one
choice. Now, we have made it in such a
way that if you miss the University of
Lagos; University of Nigeria, Nsukka;
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaira, you will
have an opportunity of going to another
school.
Before, all universities will be in first and
second choice and that will not solve any
problem. We have now decided to put a
few of those schools we feel will have
more spaces as more preferred.
Institutions placed on the more preferred
choice are those that are mostly not
oversubscribed. This is because it will not
make any sense if you place institutions
like the ABU, UNILAG, OAU and UNN, when
in actual sense they cannot even admit
one third of the candidates that will
choose them as most preferred.”
The board, in the 2015/16 session, had
arbitrarily redistributed admission seekers
to universities other than their first choice
institutions, a development many parents
and candidates kicked against. No fewer
than 1.5million candidates sit for the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
for about 500,000 admission spaces
annually.
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