The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has for now set aside the policy of across board cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions and allowed the institutions the latitude to set their individual minimum benchmark for admission.
It, however, adopted the minimum cut-off marks for 2021 admissions sent by tertiary institutions.
The Board took the decision at the 2021 policy meeting, which was held virtually and chaired by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.
JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, displayed the minimum cut off marks adopted by tertiary institutions at the 2021 policy meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.
Prof. Oloyede said some universities such as the University of Maiduguri proposed 150; Usman Dan Fodio University Sokoto proposed 140; Pan Atlantic University proposed 210; University of Lagos 200, Lagos State University -190, Covenant University -190, Bayero University Kano -180.
But by the new arrangement, universities are not allowed to go below 120 and polytechnics and colleges of education, 100 for admission.
The meeting agreed that the total fee for post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination fee should not be more than N2, 000.
Oloyede warned the institutions not to go beyond the pegged fee during the meeting.
He said: “Nobody should charge more than N2,000. The total gross is N2, 000. It is not allowed by institutions to allow candidates to procure administrative charges.
“No institution is allowed to capture or demand any result upload. It is the one that we upload on caps that we will send to all of you. The biometrics supplied by JAMB should be used for the exercise.”
Also, stakeholders approved October 29, 2021 as the deadline for the closure of amendments for 2021 admissions.
On the deadline for the closure of admissions, the stakeholders resolved to allow the ministry to decide as they could not agree on the December 31, 2021 deadline for all public institutions and January 31, 2022, for all private institutions.
The stakeholders also adopted the 2021 admission guidelines, which provide that all applications for part-time or full-time programmes for degrees, NCE, OND, and others must be posted only through JAMB.
The meeting approved that for Direct Entry, the maximum score a candidate can present is 6 and the minimum is 2 or E, as required by law.