The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has shifted the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) screening for the 2020 admission processes till September 7 in Nigeria’s universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
The board said the shift in the date of the admission process was to accommodate candidates who would be taking part in this year’s school-based Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).
The Board Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this on Monday after a consultative virtual meeting with Vice Chancellors, Rectors, and Provosts of tertiary institutions. According to him, “the view of JAMB is that while we go on consulting at a point when it becomes necessary for a decision, we should all come together and make decisions.
“Presently as you are aware, WAEC starts the Senior School Certificate Examination on Aug. 17; it will go on till Sept. 7.
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“Similarly, on Sept. 2 or thereabout, NABTEB will commence its own examination that will go on till Oct. 15, and immediately after that, NECO starts from the 5th to Nov.18.
“Rather than making candidates run, particularly, when they will have to write their school certificate exam in different towns and rush to universities elsewhere for post-UTME, like somebody rushing from Sokoto to Ibadan for post-UTME, we believe as a custodian of the highest sector of the education system, we should avoid that.”
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He advised institutions to spread their post-UTME screening in such exercise in two phases. “Institutions who want to take post-UTME, that cannot be earlier than the 7th of September and it will be held twice – from 7th September to 4th of October, and then it will be held for the second time on the 18th of November to mop up those who are taking their school certificate examination,” he said.
He commended the various submissions of heads of tertiary institutions during the meeting, noting that institutions that conducted admissions without the administration of any-post UTME screening should also ensure candidates whose SSCE results would be released toward the end of the year were not denied participation in the admission exercise.
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He revealed that the board had withheld results of candidates that sat for the 2020 UTME at Correctional Service Centres (prisons) over suspected infractions.
“There are candidates who took exams in the correctional centres that we know are not prisoners, so we wrote to the correctional centres to explain how that happens, because we did not want non-prisoners to take advantage of the concessions we give to inmates,” he said.
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