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  • JAMB announces closure of Direct Entry application

    JAMB announces closure of Direct Entry application

    …releases results of rescheduled UTME

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday announced that the Direct Entry (DE) application, which began in December 2017, would close on June 4.

    The Board’s Head of Media, Fabian Benjamin, made the announcement in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.

    According to Benjamin, over 140,000 candidates have so far obtained the forms online.

    He said that the closure became necessary in order to avail the board to plan ahead for the 2018 admission process into various institutions.

    “With the policy meeting coming up on June 26, which involves the Minister of Education and all stakeholders in the sector, the 2018 admission guidelines would be discussed and approved for the board.

    “This includes both for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and DE.

    “Therefore, candidates who are still interested and want to apply for the DE should use the window period of seven days to apply, as no extension of date will be granted.”

    Similarly, Benjamin said that the board has released the results of the mop up examination conducted for candidates, who were rescheduled for the UTME on Saturday, May 26.

    Recall that the board had recently, conducted a mop up examination for over 12,000 candidates in some of its centres across the country.

    This included those whose biometrics could not be captured during the initial period of the UTME in March, those who were yet to see their results and have not been involved in any form of malpractice.

    Others included those who were unable to print out their e-slip before the earlier examinations and those whose centres were cancelled for suspected malpractices.

    On the admission process,Benjamin said the board frowned at some institutions that breached the constitutional guidelines for the entire process by making advertorials before the policy meeting.

    He explained that all institutions must note that they are not to make any form of adverts for admissions into their schools until after the policy meeting.

    According to the spokesman, this is because the meeting is the only authorised body that approves admission process for every preceding year.

    “Advertising before the policy meeting is a violation and abuse of the entire process.

    “They must recall that at the meeting, all proceedings, rules and regulations guiding the admissions are discussed and unanimously approved by all stakeholders.

    “However, a list of institutions that breached this rule are being compiled by the board and to be forwarded to the appropriate body for sanction.”

    He added that in view of the above, those who intend to make admission adverts before the slated meeting, are urged to have a rethink and halt.

    He also noted that the 2018 policy meeting of the education sector was coming early to allow institutions begin early admission.

  • Registration for direct entry admission ends Sept 15 – JAMB

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will shut down its Direct Entry admission e-registration portal on Sept.15.

    Head of Media and Information of the board, Dr Fabian Benjaminsaid this in an interview with newsmen in an interview in Abuja on Friday.

    Benjamin urged the prospective candidates for the direct entry admission to register before the deadline, saying that the board might not extend the deadline.

    He also advised the UTME candidates to re-upload their O’ Level results in the JAMB new portal as the one previously used did not allow for the capturing of candidates O’ Level grades.

    He further said that the candidates should use JAMB’s approved Computer Based Test (CBT) centres for the exercise.

    According to him, the new portal has provided a platform for the detailed categories of West African Examination (WAEC) results of candidates for proper placement.

    “The first platform that was used for the exercise did not create room for the capturing of the levels of grades such as C4, C5, C6, B1, B2, B3 and A1.

    “You know in some schools, all these O’ level grades are considered.

    “You may have a B1 and another candidate has a B3. If there is no room for separating the grades in the platform, schools may not be able to ascertain the levels of grades.

    “The first platform just stated “A”, “B”, “C”. So with this new platform, there will be room for the download of the levels of grades.

    “Somebody who has a B1 will stand a better chance than the person with a B3.

    “So, we use this new platform to capture all those detailed categories of WAEC result so that no grade of result will be left uploaded.’’

    Benjamin, however, added that any candidate who felt that what he or she uploaded earlier was enough might not bother.

     

     

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  • JAMB announces date for sales of 2017 Direct Entry, foreign candidates’ forms

    JAMB announces date for sales of 2017 Direct Entry, foreign candidates’ forms

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will begin the sale of the 2017 Direct Entry forms and registration of foreign candidates on July 10.

    JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Bwari, FCT, on Monday.

    Mr. Benjamin said the process of registration for the Direct Entry was spelt out in the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    He said candidates for Direct Entry were expected to have Advanced Level, Diploma or its equivalent, while foreign candidates must possess proof of residency abroad.

    “For the foreign candidates to be eligible to write examination in a foreign centre, you must have stayed in the foreign country for at least a minimum of six months.

    “You must have schooled there, you must have had your secondary education there; you must show evidence of having stayed there for period of six months.

    “If you have stayed in Nigeria and just fly to London to register, you are not eligible; you must have schooled or had your secondary education outside the country.

    “Not that you just finished Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in 2016, and you are rushing to the United Kingdom to go and write your examination,” Benjamin said.

    He noted that measures had been put in place to ensure that candidates who wrote the previous examination and failed were not registered in foreign countries, unless they meet the guideline.

    Benjamin explained that the Direct Entry would be sold at the same price previously pegged at N5,000, adding that the Board was yet to fix the price for application for foreign candidates.

    “We are discussing on that, we are looking at selling the forms at $100 (N31,525.00) for Africans and $150 (N47,287.50) for non-Africans,” he said.

    He said that the JAMB Direct Entry was mainly for people who already possessed a diploma certificate and wished to do a programme in the university.