Good News! FG Reverses JAMB’s New Admission Policy

Federal Government reversed the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board new
admission policy that sparked off protests in
parts of the country. Henceforth, all the students
that made the cut-off marks have been told to
go and write post-UME examinations in their
schools of first choice. No more Re-Assignment
(JAMB newly introduced vernacular).
The decisions reached at the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board 2015 admission policy
have been overruled by the Federal Government.
Summary of JAMB’s New Admission Policy.
JAMB adopted a policy whereby candidates of
universities with surplus applicants for the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations are
reassigned to other universities with lower
number of applicants than their capacities.
The Good News!
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education,
Mr. MacJohn Nwaobiala, said “This JAMB thing
has been there. As the policy making body, when
these issues were raised, they raised in a
stakeholders meeting. We normally have what we
call the policy meeting. Everything about
admission are discussed with parents and other
stakeholders at the meeting.
“These are decisions that we collectively took.
However, we have a listening hear. We have
taken a lot of the issues raised into
consideration and we are consulting to see the
adjustments we can make here and there.
“The directive has been given. All the students
that made the cut-off marks have been told to
go and write post-UME examinations in their
schools of first choice. After, they can go to
their schools of second choice. That has been
the bone of contention.”