JAMB Set To Sanction Varsities Over Illegal Admissions

JAMB Set To Sanction Varsities Over Illegal Admissions

JAMB Set To Sanction Varsities Over Illegal Admissions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has stated it will sanction universities providing admission to Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates on their personal portals with out abiding through the Central Admissions Processing System. The board additionally warned candidates now not to just accept any offer of admission that isn’t proven on their profile web page with or provided via the CAPS, adding that such admission gives were illegal and might now not be acknowledged. JAMB on Monday disclosed this in its weekly bulletin, saying that the intention of the universities was to “trap harmless and more certified candidates from their preferred programmes in order that they may receive different programmes.”

The board mentioned that the colleges were advised to right away withdraw and desist from such illegitimate actions. It said, “We have acquired court cases that three public universities have devised strategies of offering admission to applicants outdoor the CAPS on their personal precise portals. But the CAPS system is designed, among other things, to prevent institutions from unilaterally changing or presenting a candidate for admission into other programmes aside from his or her chosen one; to disallow an group to skip a higher ranking candidate to pick out a much less ranking candidate; and to allow an group advise a alternative programme for the consent or rejection of a low rating candidate, who isn’t possibly to stable an area inside the preliminary programme. “In order to circumvent the rights of applicants, the institutions are now using their very own portals to unlawfully persuade and pressurise candidates to simply accept some other route after which make a trade of path on the JAMB portal to the new course supposedly provided on their own portal.

 

“These tricks are wrong and have to be unnoticed through the applicants. All establishments using such hints are setting into jeopardy the future of the illegitimately favoured less certified applicants because the board will no longer condone or regularise such irregular admission. “Any candidate who accepts such provide of admission, made outdoor CAPS, does so at his or her own risk. There will be no regularisation of any abnormal or condonment of unlawful admission. Appropriate warning has been given to those universities to withdraw and desist from such illegitimate movement. Any such act will henceforth be visited with appropriate sanctions.” Although JAMB did now not expose the names of 3 universities, it placed a photo of the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, in the warning.

 

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