●Students troop to streets in jubilation
●Parents, private tutors commend FG, media for being responsive
●Parents, private tutors commend FG, media for being responsive
In what could be regarded as a dramatic U-turn, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Tuesday reversed its new admission policy, which would have barred some candidates from writing the post-Unifying Tertiary Matriculation Examination tests of some of the universities of their first choices.
This is even as the candidates in their hundreds alongside the leadership of the Association of Tutorial School Operators trooped to the streets of Akoka, Lagos, Tuesday afternoon in jubilation of what they referred to as their victory against JAMB and the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka.
The new policy, which had been greeted by protests from both the candidates and their parents, was yesterday reversed by the examination body by lifting the ban earlier placed on some universities including UNILAG, University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin and Imo State University, from conducting the post-UTME for any other candidates other than those recommended to them by the board.
In an exclusive interview with DGossip247, the JAMB’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, said the board shifted its grand on the policy in response to the demands by the individual candidates to be accorded the opportunity to fight for the available slots.
Benjamin, however, revealed that the redistribution of the candidates to other needy universities will not stop and that those redistributed candidates can as well write the post-UTME tests in their universities of first choice and still proceed to where they are redistributed to take part in their screening tests.
He said; “JAMB as a responsible and responsive body wouldn’t have closed its ears against the cries of its candidates. But the redistribution still holds and the advantage is just that these candidates who have been redistributed have chances of writing post-UTME in two places.”
Benjamin added that JAMB was only interested in ensuring that the candidates are offered admission rather than wasting their high scores concentrating their efforts on a single institution.
Meanwhile, the University of Lagos has expressed its readiness to conduct a seamless test for its more than 30,000 candidates, saying as long as JAMB make the list of candidates available, it would make everything possible to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the tests.
This is even as the candidates in their hundreds alongside the leadership of the Association of Tutorial School Operators trooped to the streets of Akoka, Lagos, Tuesday afternoon in jubilation of what they referred to as their victory against JAMB and the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka.
The new policy, which had been greeted by protests from both the candidates and their parents, was yesterday reversed by the examination body by lifting the ban earlier placed on some universities including UNILAG, University of Ibadan, University of Ilorin and Imo State University, from conducting the post-UTME for any other candidates other than those recommended to them by the board.
In an exclusive interview with DGossip247, the JAMB’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, said the board shifted its grand on the policy in response to the demands by the individual candidates to be accorded the opportunity to fight for the available slots.
Benjamin, however, revealed that the redistribution of the candidates to other needy universities will not stop and that those redistributed candidates can as well write the post-UTME tests in their universities of first choice and still proceed to where they are redistributed to take part in their screening tests.
He said; “JAMB as a responsible and responsive body wouldn’t have closed its ears against the cries of its candidates. But the redistribution still holds and the advantage is just that these candidates who have been redistributed have chances of writing post-UTME in two places.”
Benjamin added that JAMB was only interested in ensuring that the candidates are offered admission rather than wasting their high scores concentrating their efforts on a single institution.
Meanwhile, the University of Lagos has expressed its readiness to conduct a seamless test for its more than 30,000 candidates, saying as long as JAMB make the list of candidates available, it would make everything possible to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the tests.
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