JAMB sets date for policy meeting to determine 2024/2025 admission cut-off marks
By Sodiq Adelakun
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it will hold a policy meeting on Friday, July 18, 2024, to determine the minimum cut-off marks for the 2024/2025 admission cycle into tertiary institutions in the country.
The meeting will also set admission guidelines for colleges of education, polytechnics, and universities.
According to JAMB’s weekly bulletin released on Monday by the Board’s Spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the policy meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, and will have in attendance stakeholders such as the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Council for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Heads of tertiary institutions, and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), among others.
The meeting is expected to set the tone for the 2024/2025 admission exercise into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions..
The statement noted that; “During the exercise, the Registrar will present reports on the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the ongoing Direct Entry (DE) applications while also analysing key performance indicators that could shape the policy directions of the government.
“Also, the meeting would apprise stakeholders of the salient issues that cropped up in the course of the previous year’s admission exercise. In addition, the policy meeting would look at the performance of candidates in the current year’s UTME in order to determine the year’s minimum admissible score.
“It would be recalled that stakeholders had in the previous year agreed on the minimum admission requirement for admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
“Furthermore, the meeting would determine the year’s admission requirements while kick-starting the admission process for the current year; discuss unresolved issues emanating from the previous academic year; and, at the same time, appraise the compliance of stakeholders with extant advisories and suggest further amendments where necessary.”
