JAMB INTRODUCES NEW SYSTEM FOR 2017/2018 ADMISSION

confirmed report has it that the Joint Admission and matriculation Board JAMB has introduce a system called (CAPS) Central Admission Processing System for the 2017/2018 admission which is aimed at ensuring quality control, transparency and credibility of the admission process.
According to the report, the new policy awaiting implementation is expected to make provision for a ‘market place’ in the JAMB portal where institutions can go and ‘request for students in Nigeria who score their cut off points. Institutions in Nigeria are allowed to peg their cut off point after meeting with their respective senates.
These institutions will write to JAMB to request for the students and also give them (students) three days to respond. Also, only three universities can request for a candidate if the policy is adopted.
The new policy will also give the academic board or senate of an institution the power to ‘allocate percentages to JAMB, the school and O’level results as these will be calculated to get the students’ cut off marks for post-UTME.’ And the policy has also given provision for candidates to accept or reject admission being offered by any universities.
The officials in attendance demonstrated satisfactions and support for the new policy, at this juncture, If the policy sails through, there will be a portal for admission which will be based on cut off points, quota system and catchment areas.
“The new system is such that institutions can only admit those who meet their cut off points,” an admission officer for a tertiary institution who was at the meeting said. “If a candidate does not meet the cut off, no matter whom he or she knows, such person cannot be admitted.”
conclusively, the meeting also looked into the issue of candidates being unable to go for service as a result of JAMB admission letter they don’t have and have agreed that such set of students could be asked to pay a fee, about N10,000 for regularisation and would be able to go for the youth service.

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