The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday asked the universities and polytechnics to decide their admission scores, provided they did not accept scores below 120 and 100, respectively.
Under the arrangement, JAMB discarded the previous arrangement which involved it setting the admission scores for all the tertiary institutions in the country.
JAMB arrived at the decision during its 2021 policy meeting, which was held virtually under the chairmanship of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
“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; and Bayero University, Kano, 180,” JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar, said.
“Institutions have now been given the liberty to decide cut-off marks; there will be no cut-off marks [stipulation] from JAMB.”
The stakeholders could not agree on a date for the conclusion of admission, so the decision was left to the Ministry of Education to decide on.
The participants also agreed on a decision that the 2021 admission guidelines, which stipulated that all applications for part-time or full-time programmes for degrees, NCE, OND, and others must be posted only through JAMB.
They also agreed on a requirement that for Direct Entry, the maximum score a candidate could present is six and the minimum is two or an E, as required by law.
The policy meeting, chaired by the Minister of Education, usually has all heads of tertiary institutions, heads of regulatory agencies in the sector, and other critical stakeholders such as the chairmen of the committees on education at the lower and upper chambers of the National Assembly in attendance.
