JAMB DIRECTS TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS TO CONCLUDE 2021 ADMISSIONS

JAMB DIRECTS TERTIARY

INSTITUTIONS TO CONCLUDE 2021

ADMISSIONS

 

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)

has directed all tertiary institutions to complete the 2021

admission exercise.

It said the call became necessary following a negligible

number of fully – processed 2021 admissions on the

Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) out of the

teeming population of eligible candidates with the

requisite qualification “yearning for admission.”

The Board said admissions for only 100, 000 candidates

have been processed out of the over 600, 000 eligible

candidates.

According to the weekly bulletin released by Head of

Information and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Monday,

JAMB’s Director of Admissions, Mohammed Ahmed,

stated these while briefing some select institutional Desk

Officers.

The director implored the desk officers to interact with

their respective institutions to ensure that even if they are

not ready for the students to resume, they can conduct

such admissions prior to their respective chosen

resumption dates to enable their candidates to know their

fate.

Ahmed said the board was ready to roll out the 2022

unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME)

application documents, hence the need for Desk Officers

to be proactive.

The director of admissions, during the meeting, expressed

the resolve of the board to prevent candidates from

incurring unnecessary expenses through buying new e –

pins that they may not use if they are eventually admitted.

The board is aware of the numerous challenges that have

impacted the academic calendars of tertiary institutions

as well as the smooth processing of admission requests

but urged them to devise acceptable means of closing the

gap and complete the 2021 admission exercise on

schedule,” it said.

It would be recalled that over 1.4 million candidates

registered for both the 2021 UTME and Direct Entry of

which only about 600, 000 possessed the requisite

qualifications to be admitted based on available records

with JAMB.

Meanwhile, the board said it has changed the literature

texts in four language subjects, including Literature – in –

English ahead of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation

Examination.

JAMB listed the four language subjects as Arabic, Yoruba,

Igbo, and Hausa.

“New text for Literature-in-English include Lion and the

Jewel by Wole Soyinka; Look Back in Anger by John

Osborne; Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta;

Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei Agyiri; and

Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte.