JAMB to kick off 2024 admission as policy meeting holds Thursday

Preparations for admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria are now underway with the eagerly anticipated 2024 policy meeting organized annually by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination (JAMB).

Scheduled to take place in Abuja on Thursday, July 18, the meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman. Its primary agenda will be to authorize the commencement of admissions for the current academic year across the universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education in the country.

The board, in its weekly news bulletin yesterday, stated: “This year’s exercise will also feature the National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit Award, NATAP-M Awards, where the overall winner will receive N500 million, and other consolation winners will share N250 million collectively.

”The policy meeting, usually attended by vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics, and innovation enterprise institutes, provosts of colleges of education, and other critical stakeholders, will consider and approve the guidelines for the 2024 admission exercise.

“The meeting will review the performance of the 2023 admissions exercise and the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME performance of candidates.

“The minimum admission scores, an aggregation of individual institutions’ submissions, will be approved at the meeting.

“This is not a cut-off mark, as often misconstrued, but a minimum score that no institution should go below. The decisions made at the meeting, chaired by the Minister of Education, form the guiding norms for admission and are a collective decision, not solely that of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

“No institution is expected to commence the admission process until after the policy meeting, as the guidelines regulating the year’s admission exercise are determined at the meeting with the endorsement of the Minister of Education.

“The meeting declares the commencement of the year’s admission exercise, setting the grand norms, and any institution that violates these collective norms will face sanctions.””