The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said the 250 marks outlined by the University of Lagos as its cut-off marks for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination is justified.
The spokesperson for JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. JAMB said it was “aware that some universities have their own admission cut-off marks acceptable by it for courses they offered. While promising that no candidate would be denied any right to aspire to tertiary education, JAMB said it was aware that some universities had their own admission cut-off marks acceptable for courses they offered.
It said, “The policy witnessed in UNILAG is aimed at ensuring that our universities admit only the top best as done globally. Please be informed that JAMB ensures that these institutions apply these cut-off marks uniformly across all candidates without discrimination.
“The decision of JAMB on the print-out for this year’s exercise was done in good faith not to jeopardise the rights of candidates due to individual cut-off set by some Nigerian tertiary institutions.
“Those candidates, who do not meet the cut-off marks of such institutions will be placed in needy institutions within their geopolitical zone depending on available space in such institutions. The aim is to accommodate as many candidates as possible instead of just pushing them to schools we know abinitio does not have the carrying capacity to admit all.
“For instance, UNILAG with a carrying capacity of about 9,000, has over 60,000 applying to it. The question is: what happens to the over 50,000? We have other institutions like that and what we are doing is to ensure that the balance are also placed in other needy institutions.”
The spokesperson for JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. JAMB said it was “aware that some universities have their own admission cut-off marks acceptable by it for courses they offered. While promising that no candidate would be denied any right to aspire to tertiary education, JAMB said it was aware that some universities had their own admission cut-off marks acceptable for courses they offered.
It said, “The policy witnessed in UNILAG is aimed at ensuring that our universities admit only the top best as done globally. Please be informed that JAMB ensures that these institutions apply these cut-off marks uniformly across all candidates without discrimination.
“The decision of JAMB on the print-out for this year’s exercise was done in good faith not to jeopardise the rights of candidates due to individual cut-off set by some Nigerian tertiary institutions.
“Those candidates, who do not meet the cut-off marks of such institutions will be placed in needy institutions within their geopolitical zone depending on available space in such institutions. The aim is to accommodate as many candidates as possible instead of just pushing them to schools we know abinitio does not have the carrying capacity to admit all.
“For instance, UNILAG with a carrying capacity of about 9,000, has over 60,000 applying to it. The question is: what happens to the over 50,000? We have other institutions like that and what we are doing is to ensure that the balance are also placed in other needy institutions.”
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