The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has barred all higher institutions from commencing the 2024 admission processes before its policy meeting scheduled to be held this week.
The Next Edition reports that this announcement was made in the board’s weekly bulletin, which was released on Monday, July 15.
The update states that the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, will lead the 2024 policy gathering, which is scheduled for Thursday, July 18, in Abuja.
The purpose of this policy meeting is to approve the start of admissions for this academic year.
According to JAMB, all necessary procedures are in place for the start of admissions into the country’s higher education institutions.
The bulletin stated, “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-chancellors 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 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.
“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.”
