The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), alongside vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, and provosts of Colleges of Education, among other stakeholders in the education sector, will meet on July 18, 2024, to decide the cut-off or minimum benchmarks for admission. This year’s meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, according to a notice …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will decide the cut-off for 2023 admissions into universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions on 24th June. The event, which will hold at the National Judicial Institute, will have in attendance all heads of tertiary institutions and regulatory bodies such as the National Universities Commission, National Board for Technical Education, and the National …

The recent lowering of cut-off marks for admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been received with mixed feelings by university lecturers in the South-South. While majority of them described the new decision as counter-productive and dangerous, others see it a welcome development and being inclusive. The university teachers expressed their feelings on …