LASU adopts online screening for 2016/2017 admission

‎The Lagos State University (LASU) has commenced the admission of candidates for the 2016/2017 academic session using the online screening approach. The institution’s Vice-Chancellor (V-C), Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that the institution had begun to use the system.

He said that candidates, who chose LASU as their first choice as directed ‎by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), would be screened online.

Fagbohun said that an online application portal had already been designed for the candidates to upload their results, certificates and other relevant data.

“The university will go online and shortlist the credentials of successful candidates, who chose LASU as their first choice, for onward transmission to JAMB.

“We are aware that our prospective students are expecting us to invite them for the screening but it will be done online and we have already started that,” he said.

Fagbohun said that there was no discord between the institution, or any other university with JAMB, as various positions were being harmonised.
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According to him, every university is complying with JAMB’s directives not to conduct the Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

“We are acting in accordance ‎with JAMB’s directive to screen the candidates’ certificates and other requirements and make our selection from there,” he said.

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JAMB clarifies 2016 admission strategy

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the recent lists forwarded to various tertiary institutions was for candidates that qualified for screening based on institutions’ capacity.

The board’s Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, made the clarification on Sunday Lagos in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

According to the statement, they are in no way the admission lists. It added that if, however, the number of candidates on such lists was not sufficient for existing vacancies, the institutions could source from the omnibus printout earlier sent to them by the board.

``The public and all tertiary institutions should note that admission will only be approved by the board after appropriate screening of the candidates by the institutions.

``The list which is made up of candidates who met the national cut-off point within the set criteria is then forwarded to the institutions,’’ it said.

The statement noted that the intention of the board was to ensure that available spaces were adequately utilised. 

(NAN)

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One JAMB Sitting Now Lasts For Three Years – Senate

The Senate Upper Chamber on Wednesday 2nd March 2016 extended the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Entrance Examination (UTME) validity period to three years from one year.

This means students who write the entrance exam in a particular year and fail to secure admission in that year can use the same result in the subsequent years up until its expiration three years after. The senate also reduced the fee payable to JAMB from N5,650 per form to 2,500 Naira.

On JAMB’s Resolution Amendment in Nov 2015

The resolutions followed the submission and consideration of the report on JAMB admission policies submitted by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Binta Masi Garba.

The Senate on November 17, 2015 adopted a resolution and directed its committee on tertiary institutions and TETFund to inquire into circumstances surrounding the new JAMB policy including allegations of favouritism as well as review of JAMB admission.

The upper chamber also said that its relevant committees should work to ensure the amendment of JAMB Act to reflect resolutions.

The new JAMB policy entails that a candidate will make a choice of one university, one polytechnic and one college of education and then sit for a computer based test (CBT) to gain admission into any tertiary institution in the country.

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NUT opposes JAMB cut-off mark

The Nigeria Union of Teachers has said it is strongly opposed to the current admission policy which pegged Joint Admission Matriculation Board cut-off marks for students seeking admission into universities at 180 and above while those for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education was put at 150 and above.

The union described the policy as highly discriminatory and “calculated at demeaning and lowering the professional status of teachers with its concomitant negative effect on the attainment of quality education in the country.”

A statement by the NUT Secretary-General, Obong Obong on Tuesday in Abuja, said the policy is a great disservice to the education sector as it placed the best brains and students of distinction in other courses while those with lower grades were pushed into teaching.

The association called for an immediate reversal of the policy, stressing that the government must henceforth ensure that only brilliant students are admitted for training as teachers in all educational institutions in the county.

It said, “This is the practice in most advanced and developed countries, where it is considered that a teacher’s ability to disseminate knowledge to students is dependent on his sound intellectual capability.

“This is how government deliberately source for people with lower educational content to become teachers only to turn around and blame them for poor delivery. If this is allowed to stand, government should take full responsibility for the resultant shortcomings that may be observed in our educational institutions in future from those teachers.”

The statement noted that the nation still have in abundance very brilliant and effective teachers in service who it said should be nurtured for effective service delivery. This, the NUT added, was the reason it had been calling for the raising of the retirement age of teachers in primary and secondary schools to 65 years in order to tap maximally from “their fountain of knowledge.”

With such experienced teachers retained in service in primary and secondary schools, the union said young teachers would be able to fall back on them for mentoring. It said, “We however wish to warn that the teaching profession must not be made an all-comers affair.

“The glorious old days of sound educational delivery cannot be reenacted by lowering admission standard for student teachers. The government must immediately address this abnormally in order to address the continuous decline in the quality of education.”

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NUT opposes JAMB cut-off mark

The Nigeria Union of Teachers has said it is strongly opposed to the current admission policy which pegged Joint Admission Matriculation Board cut-off marks for students seeking admission into universities at 180 and above while those for Polytechnics and Colleges of Education was put at 150 and above.

The union described the policy as highly discriminatory and “calculated at demeaning and lowering the professional status of teachers with its concomitant negative effect on the attainment of quality education in the country.”

A statement by the NUT Secretary-General, Obong Obong on Tuesday in Abuja, said the policy is a great disservice to the education sector as it placed the best brains and students of distinction in other courses while those with lower grades were pushed into teaching.

The association called for an immediate reversal of the policy, stressing that the government must henceforth ensure that only brilliant students are admitted for training as teachers in all educational institutions in the county.

It said, “This is the practice in most advanced and developed countries, where it is considered that a teacher’s ability to disseminate knowledge to students is dependent on his sound intellectual capability.

“This is how government deliberately source for people with lower educational content to become teachers only to turn around and blame them for poor delivery. If this is allowed to stand, government should take full responsibility for the resultant shortcomings that may be observed in our educational institutions in future from those teachers.”

The statement noted that the nation still have in abundance very brilliant and effective teachers in service who it said should be nurtured for effective service delivery. This, the NUT added, was the reason it had been calling for the raising of the retirement age of teachers in primary and secondary schools to 65 years in order to tap maximally from “their fountain of knowledge.”

With such experienced teachers retained in service in primary and secondary schools, the union said young teachers would be able to fall back on them for mentoring. It said, “We however wish to warn that the teaching profession must not be made an all-comers affair.

“The glorious old days of sound educational delivery cannot be reenacted by lowering admission standard for student teachers. The government must immediately address this abnormally in order to address the continuous decline in the quality of education.”

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