The Senate on summoned the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, to explain all he knows about the difficulties surrounding admissions into the nation's universities.
The Senate also asked its committee on education to investigate circumstances surrounding a new JAMB policy including allegations of favouritism.
The committee was also mandated to review the power of JAMB on issues revolving around admission issues.
The upper legislative chamber also asked JAMB to extend the validity of candidates' admissions into tertiary institutions from 12 months to 36 months to ease the pressure faced by parents who cannot easily raise funds to send their children to school.
While moving a motion on the frustrations being witnessed by JAMB candidates in their search for
admissions into tertiary institutions, Senator Joshua Lidani (Gombe South), expressed concerns over a recent policy of the institution which
empowers JAMB to reassign applicants for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in
universities with excessive number of candidates to universities with lower number of applicants.
He listed benefits of the policy to include enabling universities with lower number of applicants to have enough candidates for admission and
simultaneously providing applicants with better chances of securing admissions.
He also expressed concerns that only applicants whose names are forwarded to universities are eligible for post UTME, noting that others have to return to JAMB website to search for their new institutions.
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