JAMB Announces Deadline For 2020/2021 Admissions

JAMB Announces Deadline For 2020/2021 Admissions.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced June 15 as the deadline for the 2020 admissions into Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The admissions are for the JAMB UTME examination held last year.

The examination body made the announcement in a statement Sunday morning.

Read the full statement below…

2020 ADMISSIONS: HEADS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS SET 15TH JUNE, 2021 DEADLINE

…as JAMB urges compliance to advisories on transfer, change of programmes and institutions

All admissions in the nation’s tertiary institutions for the 2020/2021 Academic Session would end by June 15, 2021.

The decision was collectively taken at a virtual meeting with Heads of Tertiary Institutions in the country on Wednesday, February 24, 2021.

In his remarks on the occasion, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said the meeting with the institutions was aimed at knowing the level they had reached on the 2020/21 Admissions scale.

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According to him, the essence of the interactive meeting was to forestall an endless admission regime generated by the series of disruptions to daily life occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. He said the meeting would enable the Board to put necessary machinery in place for the 2021/2022 UTME/DE Registration Exercise.

The Registrar had earlier informed the gathering of eminent scholars that only 30 per cent of institutions had started admissions into the 2020/2021 Academic Session.

He stated there was the need to collectively decide when to close the 2020/2021 Admission Exercise. He added that the proposal was for Public Universities to end admissions four weeks ahead of Private Universities, the Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and IEIs.

JAMB Announces Deadline For 2020/2021 Admissions

After a robust and insightful deliberation, members collectively agreed that all public universities are expected to finish their admissions on or before 15th May, 2021, while the private universities and all IEIs, polytechnics and COEs would complete theirs at the agreed date of 15th June, 2021.

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Mr Oloyede reiterated that the chosen deadlines remained sacrosanct and binding on all institutions as the Board would not tolerate any breaches of the collective decision reached at the meeting.

He said the board would announce in a week’s time the commencement date for the sale of application documents for the 2021/2022 Academic Session.