The Senate on Wednesday asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to extend the validity period of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to three years.
The Senate also asked JAMB to reduce the examination fee from N5,600 to N2,500.
These resolutions were contained in the report of an Inquiry Committee into new JAMB policies on the admission, which was considered on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday.
According to the report, the Committee recommended that JAMB fee should not exceed N2,500.
Equally, change of institution and course form and all other incidental activities around the exam, the Committee said, should be free.
The Committee in its report said it discovered that there are different layers of fees/expenses candidates incur while undergoing the JAMB examination.
The Senate however mandated the committee to amend the Act establishing JAMB to reflect the extension of the validity period to three years.
Also, the Senate condemned the non-payment of allowances of Nigerian students studying abroad, who are beneficiaries of the Bilateral Education Agreement and other scholarships of the Federal Government.
The Senate’s condemnation was sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator David Umaru and seven others who expressed dissatisfaction with non-payment of study allowances to Nigerians schooling abroad.
Umbra told the lawmakers that the failure of the Federal Government to honour its own part of the Bilateral Education Agreement Scholarship award scheme by not paying these allowances, has exposed Nigerians students to untold hardship.
The senators also urged the Federal Government to take immediate steps to ensure prompt payment of all outstanding allowances of students under its scholarship scheme abroad.
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