…Warns faith-based establishments towards hiding standing
…Says undergraduates who write examination once more could forfeit admission
By Adesina Wahab
As admission seekers will immediately start registration for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has cancelled particular concession and registration hitherto allowed for folks with albinism as a result of some had been utilizing similar to perpetrate malpractice.
Additionally, the Board has urged faith-based establishments to reveal their standing from the onset, saying pretending to be secular to attract candidates and later deliver forth non secular guidelines was a kind of deception.
These had been components of the selections arrived at weekend when administration of the Board, led by the Registrar, Prof. Isaq Oloyede, met with the commissioners for training within the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in Ikeja, Lagos.
Oloyede, who stated the assembly was to evaluate and assess the earlier train, stated regardless of the quite a few steps taken by the examination physique, some unscrupulous individuals had been bent on circumventing the method.
“We now have stopped some concessions we gave albino candidates. It is because some are utilizing Synthetic Intelligence, AI, to control the registration course of to appear to be they’re albinos due to the consideration we gave them. Final 12 months alone, over 7,000 claimed to be albinos. We now have stopped particular registration procedures for albinos,’’ he stated.
On the complaints from admitted candidates in some non-public establishments relating to non secular directions and guidelines, Oloyede urged the colleges to declare from the onset their standing.
His phrase: “Religion-based establishments ought to declare from the onset what they’re, in order that whoever applies there’ll know what he’s going to satisfy there, however some don’t try this. They may faux to be secular in nature however when college students at the moment are admitted, hassle will start relating to non secular directions and injunctions.
‘’If you’re a faith-based establishment, say so. The legislation permits you to arrange faith-based faculties.”
On the revelation final 12 months that the candidate with the very best rating was already a 300 degree pupil in a college, the JAMB boss famous that investigation confirmed that some undergraduates do write the examination to ultimately begin one other course, however famous that some achieve this to assist others safe admission.
“College students who’re already at school however need to change programs and are making use of once more should declare and disclose their standing. We now have discovered that some candidates already at school do write the examination for different candidates.
‘’Final 12 months, the candidate who scored the very best, out of curiosity, we did a background test on him and discovered that he was a 300 degree pupil within the college. Henceforth, any candidate who’s discovered partaking in such an act, and who did not disclose that he’s already at school however desires to vary course, shall be disqualified and in addition lose his present admission,” he added.
On admission standards, he defined that for federal government-owned establishments, it was 45 per cent advantage; 20 per cent catchment space; 20 per cent educationally deprived states and the remaining for others.
Oloyede stated additional: “Every proprietor or state has the correct to resolve what their admission standards shall be. However for states, we encourage them to make a minimum of 10 per cent for advantage, not minding the place the candidates come from. That is to diversify the coed inhabitants and admit egg heads from completely different communities.”
He took a swipe at some states establishing new universities after they had not crammed their quotas in federal establishments.
On the problem of underaged candidates, he defined: “There may be attestation to be signed for underaged candidates. Final 12 months, we had about 42,000 claiming to be underaged. After analysis and evaluation of their claims, solely 78 had been capable of meet the standards set and received admitted to universities. We’re not saying there are not any proficient candidates, however the determine right here seems to be outlandish.
“For now, 16 years is the admission age and if anyone is less than that age, he has to satisfy the requirement of scoring 80 per cent within the UTME and the post-UTME screening. Some persons are saying there ought to be one thing that may be accomplished to fill the hole 12 months earlier than they’re sufficiently old to be admitted at 16 years.
‘’Going by the nation’s training coverage and if folks persist with the principles, most college students ought to be near 16 earlier than admission 12 months.”
How you can deal with the problem of underaged candidates divided the assembly, as some stated the Board ought to create one thing for such candidates to get busy throughout the hole 12 months.
Nonetheless, Oloyede put the matter to vote and the bulk gave the go forward to the Board to proceed the method of particular evaluation of such candidates.
The assembly famous that oldsters placing strain on their youngsters to shortly end their training are those inflicting the difficulty.
On a number of the new steps taken to test examination malpractice, Oloyede stated one of many steps was to cease the motion of computer systems from one centre to a different.
“A pc that’s registered in a specific centre will stay there and never transferable to a different centre. Some folks, as a result of they need their centres to be accredited, would go and borrow computer systems from completely different sources and after we’ve got thought they’re certified and accredit them, then they are going to be shifting the computer systems from one place to the opposite,” he stated.
He said that JAMB would by no means publish candidates to cities they didn’t select, stressing that “we don’t publish candidates to cities they didn’t select.
‘’Identify, state and different important info of a candidate is received from the NIN they submit for registration. We don’t misspell names as a result of we don’t tamper with that.”
Giving an replace on final 12 months’s UTME, Oloyede stated 974,855 candidates had to date been admitted out of the about 1.95 million that wrote the examination.
He stated over N2.4 billion had been given by the Board to establishments that did nicely in adhering to its guidelines within the final 10 years.
The assembly additionally voted that faculty the place the very best candidates emerge ought to be compensated.
On accreditation of CBT centres,Oloyede stated it was accomplished by a workforce comprising a college vice chancellor, rector and provost, amongst others, in every state of the federation.
He warned state governments towards signing agreements with non-public promoters of CBT centres who would need to use the centres to perpetrate examination malpractice.
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