The stage is now set for admission into the nation's tertiary institutions as the long awaited 2024 policy meeting, being held annually by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination, JAMB, holds this week.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, will chair the 2024 policy meeting,slated for Thursday, July 18, in Abuja.
The policy meeting will authorize the commencement of year's admission exercise.
The board, in its weekly news bulletin on Monday, disclosed that, "this year's exercise will also feature the National Tertiary Admissions' Performance-Merit Award, NATAP-M Awards, where the overall winner will receive N500 million, and other consolation winners will share N250 million collectively.
The policy meeting, usually attended by Vice-Chancellor of universities, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics, and innovation enterprise institutes, provosts of colleges of education, and other critical stakeholders, will consider and approve the guidelines for the 2024 admission exercise.
"The meeting will review the performance of the 2023 admissions exercise and the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME performance of candidates.
"The minimum admission scores, an aggregation of individual institutions' submissions, will be approved at the meeting.
"This is not a cut-off mark, as often misconstrued, but a minimum score that no institution should go below. The decisions made at the meeting, chaired by the Hon Minister of Education, form the guiding norms for admission and are a collective decision, not solely that of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB", the bulletin read.
According to JAMB, "No institution is expected to commence the admission process until after the policy meeting, as the guidelines regulating the year's admission exercise are determined at the meeting with the endorsement of the Minister of Education. "
"The meeting declares the commencement of the year's admission exercise, setting the grand norms, and any institution that violates these collective norms will face sanctions.
"A key rule is that all admissions must be processed through the Central Admissions Processing System,CAPS, and any candidate who accepts admission outside CAPS does so at their own risk, " JAMB warned.
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