UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIONS: We Will Sue JAMB If They Vandalise Our Admission Policy

The plan of vandalising the 2015 admission policy by the joint admission and matriculation board has risen a great disagreement between the members of the association of proprietors of innovation institution in Nigeria and the JAMB organisation. As the former threatens to sue JAMB If it doesn't reverse back to the original 2015 admission plan.

The president and director of the Joint admission and matriculation board Mr Andrew Jegede said that the association had decided to admit students this year based on the carrying capacity of the institution be it a university polytechnic or a college of education,

however this decision made by JAMB have been strongly opposed by the academic staff union of universities. Apparently, the union met last week and officially made it known that they would sue the JAMB if they fail to admit student according to the students choice of institution. More so, the federal government had reversed the policy in order to avoid tension in the 2015 admission processes.

Mr Jegede also called for the scraping of the post UTME examination with claims that universities use it to extort money from candidates because it is pure exploitation for an institution with a 3000 carrying capacity to allow the registration of over 10000 candidates. Mr Jegede said that the right person has not explained properly the reason for the later decision to change the admission policy, he stated the decision was not a unanimous one as the heads of universities polytechnics and collages of education were present when the decision was taken.

He said “We considered the problems associated with the 2014 admission procedure before deciding to seek redress on admission procedure for 2015. We considered the location of the student and the institution, the carrying capacity of the institutions and other criteria set by the Federal Government.

The argument between this two bodies is becoming stronger as the joint admission proposes for the redress of the admission protocol, and removal of the irrelevant post UTME due to the invention of the computer based jamb test, the institutional heads still wants them to stick to the original plan.