By Martin Paul Abuja Th e Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has barred awaiting results candidates from it Unifi ed Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Th e Board in a statement by its Head of Information, Fabian Benjamin, said the need arose in view of the fact that institutions were made to admit students, who had no requisite entry qualifi cations. “Th is, we are addressing by ensuring that no candidate is henceforth recommended without his O’level result being supplied.
“JAMB will insist that candidates supply their result on its website during registration or later, but before admissions commences for them to be considered for admissions. “We believe this will allow only qualifi ed candidates to be considered for admissions”, the statement added.
JAMB disclosed that a Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) had been designed, where the Board would interface with institutions and ensure the compliance of the reform. “Th e summary is that no candidate will be admitted with awaiting result”, JAMB said, stressing that the registration platform had been restructured to allow for only one choice of public university. “Th e new registration platform will now be fi rst choice, second choice, third choice and fourth choice and not most preferred, preferred as it was.
“Candidates’ fi rst choice can be a college, university, Innovative Enterprises Institutions or Polytechnic/Monotechnic. However, if a candidate makes a public university his fi rst choice, he will not have any public university to choose for 2nd, 3rd and 4th choice. “He will have on the remaining three choices, a college, a polytechnic, private university and IEI’S. However, candidates for the 2017 UTME can now select NCE (College) or ND (Polytechnic/ Monotechnic) as their 1st choice up to 3rd choice and the 4th IEI. “Th ey can select the IEI (Innovative Enterprise Institution, ND) as their 1st choice up to the 4th choice, but can only pick a public university once”, JAMB stated.