JAMB Announces Different Admission deadlines For Public, Private Varsities

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has started the processes for placement of candidates into all tiers of tertiary institutions for the 2019/2020 academic session.

JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.

According to Benjamin, the period slated for the admission processes as agreed during a policy meeting with stakeholders on June 11, at Gbongan, Osun, remains sacrosanct.

Benjamin told NAN that the projection for 2019 was to ensure that candidates utilise more available spaces, unlike in 2018 when there were over 500,000 unutilised available spaces in all the tiers of tertiary institutions.

He said that this development was contrary to the general narrative that there were no access to tertiary institutions, with about 60 per cent of available spaces unutilised.

Meanwhile, the spokesman said that the attention of the board had been drawn to reports in some quarters against the principles of transformation of scores by the board.

He said that this development was contrary to the general narrative that there were no access to tertiary institutions, with about 60 per cent of available spaces unutilised.

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He said: “The natural thing to do by anyone who does not know how this is carried out is to research about what normalisation means.

“In any case, in the course of transforming the worth of any candidate’s score, results are not lost.

“If the raw score indicates that a candidate has come on top in an examination, after the normalisation process, the candidate’s position will remain intact.”