Admission: JAMB to demand ‘O’ and A’ level results from candidates recommended by varsities

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday said it would demand records of ordinary and advanced level results of candidates recommended by tertiary institutions before offering them admission.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said this during this year’s meeting on Admissions Exercise for the Innovative Enterprise Institutions in Abuja.

The registrar, who had insisted that institutions must maintain the standard set by the board beginning from this year’s admission, also disclosed that since the beginning of this year, the agency had been demanding records of the O levels of the candidates that were being are admitted and that it was the first time.

He said: “When you recommend a person for admission, we want to see what qualification does he or she possess not just telling me that he or she scored 300 in UTME.

What of the real qualification?

“It used to be left to the discretion of the institutions. We are saying the standard must be maintained’’. He also maintained that the agency would stop the regularisation of all forms of illegal admissions conducted by tertiary institutions from this year.

According to him, any admission done under the table would not be regularized, warning candidates and tertiary institutions to desist from engaging in any form of illegal admission.

The registrar said: “Illegal admission used to go on and we are saying part of our effort is to make sure we put a stop to illegal admission’’.

“Illegal admission, in terms of people not even taking the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) at all not to talk of scoring zero’’.

“Illegal admission by even admitting people who do not have the requisite ordinary level (O level) because before now JAMB does not have the record of their O level.

Recall that the admission body has been making series of administrative and structural changes thanks to the various fiscal innovations introduced by Professor Oloyede, the executive secretary. Only recently, he created record by returning 5b naira to the coffers of government, a feat defied by his predecessors in office