As part of measures to address the delays by institutions in uploading their undisclosed admissions for students to process their retroactive admission letters, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has met, via a virtual platform, with all Heads of Tertiary Institutions and their Admissions Officers in the country to refresh their knowledge of the process involved, and impress it on them the necessity of prompt action as well as adherence to due process.
The Board, had after the Ministerial approval of a one-time compassionate condonement of all otherwise undisclosed and illegal admissions conducted by various institutions, issued series of Advisories besides placing advertisements in three selected newspapers on how to seamlessly navigate the process to rescue the affected students.
As part of the process, institutions are required to upload all their candidates on the Board’s platform for proper documentation as others who had taken the UTME or DE. However, to the chagrin of the Board, only about 5% of the candidates had been uploaded so far with some done haphazardly!
The refresher training is therefore, geared towards educating the institutions on the need to have a full grasp of how to process their undisclosed admission lists and do so promptly so as to achieve the desired results.
The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, had earlier in his address, disclosed that the meeting was primarily meant for Admission Officers but owing to the critical nature of the issues involved, the Head of the various institutions were also invited.
He stated that the training session would also review the various levels of operations of the scheme as well as reiterating the salient aspects of the condonement process with a view to clearing the backlogs expeditiously which he observed had been unnecessarily slow.
He pointed out that out of the 918,264 undisclosed admissions reported, less than 5% had been uploaded adding that the institutions had been blaming the Board for failing to process the candidates’ retroactive admissions letters whereas the institutions had refused to do the needful.
The Registrar also warned institutions not to upload part-time students as fulltime sating that doing so was “unacceptable and would be treated as a criminal offence.”
He reminded the institutions that the Board had furnished the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) with the lists of all full-time students, past and present, and cautioned the institutions to play by the rules so as not to be caught on the wrong side of the law.
The highlight of the meeting was the presentation by Mr. Tosin Igbalawole of Simplex Technologies, who took the participants through the process of uploading applications for condonement, what they are expected to do and the process of addressing whatever challenges might arise.
Furthermore, the presenter also demonstrated the functionality of the condonement template, how to fill the necessary columns, cross check the data entered under every heading, upload of O/L results and recommendations, among others.
At the end of the session, the participants expressed their satisfaction with the process and commended the Board for its deployment of technology to seamlessly tackling seemingly-intractable issues.
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