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Candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions
will have to abide by new rules from the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), The
Punch reports.
This is because the examination body has modified its
procedure for students seeking admission for the
2016-2017 academic session with the introduction of the
“preferred choice” platform in its portal.
This new addition will enable candidates have wider
opportunities of securing admission as sales of form for
the session commenced on September 30 to end on
January 30, 2016.
According to Dr Fabian Benjamin, the chief
information officer of the board, who spoke during an
exclusive interview with The Punch on Monday, the
modification, will lessen competition among candidates
seeking placement to the nation’s “oversubscribed”
universities.
“What we did initially was that you only have one choice.
Now, we have made it in such a way that if you miss the
University of Lagos; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaira, you will have an opportunity of going to another
school.
“Before, all universities will be in first and second choice
and that will not solve any problem. We have now decided
to put a few of those schools we feel will have more
spaces as more preferred.
“Institutions placed on the more preferred choice are those
that are mostly not oversubscribed. This is because it will
not make any sense if you place institutions like the ABU,
UNILAG, OAU and UNN, when in actual sense they cannot
even admit one third of the candidates that will choose
them as most preferred,” he said.
JAMB had during the 2015/16 session, arbitrarily
redistributed admission seekers to universities other
than their first choice institutions, which parents and
candidates kicked against.
In a its response to the distribution, JAMB claimed
that the redistributing policy was to accommodate more
candidates, reduce wastage of admission opportunities
and the stress parents and candidates go through in
seeking placement in schools.
Source: Niaj
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