JAMB Will Not Allow Institutions To Reject Candidates Unreasonably – JAMB BOSS

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it will not allow institutions to reject candidates arbitrarily or as result of sudden change in admission criteria.

This was made known by the Registrar,
Professor Is-haq O. Oloyede during the extra
ordinary technical committee meeting on
2016 admissions to first choice institutions
at Baze University, Abuja.
According to him, “JAMB will not accept
whatever is done arbitrarily and I hope
those that are here will make adjustment.
They must be able to explain why somebody
with high score was not taken.
I have a particular school where the person
who scored the highest marks was not
taken and the reason was because the
university changed its rules.
You cannot change the rules when the
game is on. You have to wait until 2017 to
publish the new rules; you cannot have a
particular rule and changed to another.”
He further mentioned that the admission
criteria by institutions must be reasonable,
explicit and must have been published in the
2016 admission brochure.
He equally stated that it is wrong for any
institution to admit candidates beyond its
carrying capacity and called on institutions
that were yet to update their requirements
for the 2017 brochure to urgently do so.