Again, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it would not offer admission to candidates below the age of 16 years in its 2024\/2025 admission session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The board which vowed to enforce the directive of the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman that candidates below the age of 16 should not be admitted into tertiary institutions, especially universities, advised candidates below the required age not to think of admission this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is as the board noted that in the 2025 admission session, only candidates that attained the age of 18 would be considered for admission in line with the directive of the minister during the 2024 National Policy Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The board reiterated its position at a press conference at its national headquarters, in Bwari, Abuja on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on behalf of the registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede,JAMB\u2019s Public Communication Advisor,Fabian Benjamin, said:\u201d For the 2024 admission cycle, candidates who will be at least 16 years old at the time of admission will be considered eligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201d This decision follows the directive from the Chairman of the 2024 tertiary admission policy meeting, who is also the Honourable Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, SAN, that the extant policy of 6-3-3-4 be enforced only from the 2025 session.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him,\u201d The alarming avalanche of obviously false affidavits and upsurge of doctored upward age-adjustments on NIN slips being submitted to JAMB to upgrade recorded age is dangerous, inimical, and unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only those below 16 would not and should not be admitted in accordance with the decision of the 2024 Policy Meeting,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also said the board \u201cwill no longer entertain absorption of illegal admissions through the window of Condonement of Illegal Admissions without Registration number\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He spoke further:\u201d This window is used to absorb, for the candidates\u2019 sake, illegal admissions that were conducted prior to 2017. It should be recalled that CAPS was introduced, in 2017 to ensure accuracy, records, transparency, accountability, fairness, and equity in admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The window (for mop-up of pre-2017 unofficial\/unregistered admission) has been on now for 7 years and it is now being abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Board\u2019s position is informed by the discovery of widespread and unwholesome practice whereby some institutions were colluding with candidates to falsify vital details, such as, backdated year of entry and subsequent age-adjustments, to utilise certificates of genuine candidates with similar names to facilitate illegal admissions to enable participation of fake candidates in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recent worse discoveries made it imperative for the Board to speak out to save the integrity of the education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same vein, the attention of the Board has also been drawn to the predilection of some institutions to admit candidates outside the approved Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) platform and process such through the confinement of illegal admissions windows to accord legitimacy. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fabian explained that in order to close this abused window, the Board has decided that,\u201d All institutions should now (or never) disclose all candidates illegally- admitted prior to 2017 whose records are in their system within the next one month beginning from 1st August 2024; and any admission purportedly given prior to 2017 will no longer be recognized or condoned unless disclosed within this one-month window.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To this end, he said,\u201d Institutions are advised to comply with this directive as there will not be any further confinement of hitherto unrecorded candidates who did not even register with JAMB not to talk of sitting for any entrance examination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis move is aimed at curbing illegal admissions and falsification of records while ensuring compliance with the provisions of CAPS,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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