JAMB Commences 2024 Admission With Policy Meeting Schedule For Thursday
Prospective students seeking admissions into Nigerian tertiary institutions can now feel reassured, as the 2024 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination (JAMB) has been scheduled for Thursday.
The policy meeting marks the beginning of the annual admission processes for tertiary institutions, which includes setting the minimum admission scores.
The meeting on Thursday will be presided over by Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman.
JAMB confirmed the meeting in its weekly news bulletin released on Monday.
It said this year’s exercise will 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,” the board said.
