The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and tertiary institutions have agreed to end all admissions into institutions for the 2020/2021 academic session by June 15.
This was the outcome of a joint virtual meeting with JAMB and heads of tertiary institutions last Wednesday.
As contained in a statement issued by JAMB’s Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the goal of the interactive meeting was to forestall an endless admission regime generated by the series of disruptions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The statement added that the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede used the meeting to find out the progress tertiary institutions had made on the 2020/21 admissions scale.
The meeting also enabled the board to put necessary machinery in place for the 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME/DE) registration exercise.
While noting that only 30 percent of institutions had started admissions into the 2020/2021 Academic Session, the statement said there was also need to collectively decide when to close the 2020/2021 Admission Exercise.
“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 June 15, 2021.
“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,” the statement said.
