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THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has set
the benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2020/21 school
session.
The cut off points ranged from 100 and above for Colleges of
Education, 120 and above for Polytechnics and 160 and above for universities.
The Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this during JAMB’s policy virtual
meeting in Abuja, yesterday.
This came as the Federal Government also,
yesterday, listed conditions for schools to reopen in the country. Oloyede also
disclosed that a total of 612,557 candidates were offered admission in the
2019/20 session, with about 510,957 not able to secure admission during the
same period.
“Of the 1,157,977 candidates who sat for the UTME in 2019, about
612,557 were admitted,” he said in his opening address on the occasion.
Oloyede
noted that candidates waiting for their results would only be considered when
they upload their results on the Board’s website.
In his remarks, Minister of
Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, directed JAMB and tertiary institutions to
proceed with the conduct of 2020/2021 admissions.
Adamu was represented by the
Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba. Admission processes are
expected to commence in August based on the guidelines released by JAMB.
The
minister urged JAMB and tertiary institutions to consider candidates with
previous years’ Senior School Certificate Examination and other qualifying
results while screening candidates for admission.
He said government would make
arrangement to accommodate applicants who would be taking the Senior Secondary
School Certificate Examinations to be conducted by the West African
Examinations Council, WAEC; National Examinations Council, NECO, among others,
when the opportunity to do so was worked out.
FG lists conditions for reopening
schools Using the occasion to again react to calls by some people and groups
for schools across the country to be reopened, the minister listed some
conditions that must be met by each school.
He said: “All institutions must
have hand-washing facilities; body
temperature checks; body disinfectants at all entering points to their major
facilities, including the gates, hostels, classes, offices, etc “Others are,
the whole premises of each institution must be decontaminated and all efforts
must be geared toward maintenance of the highest level of hygiene and ensure
social and physical distancing in class sizes and meeting spaces.”
He warned
against reopening any school without the approval of the Federal Government.
Recall that on March 19, 2020, a circular from the Federal Ministry of
Education granted an approval for the closure of all school for a period of one
month commencing from Monday, March 23,
2020 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Each state in Nigeria has,
however, contextualised this circular.
