Gunsling Yarlings, the Plateau State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, has said tertiary institutions’ insistence on conducting post…
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The protests and the Federal Government’s reversal order that greeted the new JAMB admission policy reminds one of the philosophical…
The University of Ibadan branch of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities has called for the scraping of Joint…
Stakeholders in the education sector have Agreed to retain the 2014/2015 National cutoff mark as bench mark for Admitting candidates…
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja pledged to look into the controversy over the cut-off marks for students sitting…
A human rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has filed an action at the Federal High Court, Lagos…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said the national cut off point for screening of candidates for admission remained…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it will hold its 2015 Policy meeting on July 14 to determine cut-off…
A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, in Lagos noted that over 1.4 million candidates had registered for the first ever all-computer mode of examination
The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) will from next year go full blown computer-based test.
The Lagos State Government on Monday received from Communications conglomerate, MTN Nigeria, a donation of protective materials and equipment towards the containment of the Ebola Virus Disease
Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, the Registrar of JAMB, said this at a meeting with the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Registrars of Private Universities
The Registrar of the board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, announced this at a news conference on the board’s preparations for the conduct of the examination in Bwari, the Federal Capital Territory
He said the examination, scheduled for April, would also take place in Accra (Ghana), Johannesburg (South Africa), Cameroun, Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Ivory Coast, London (UK) and Cotonou (Benin Republic)
Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB’s Registrar, said this in Ondo State at the first technical meeting of the board on the 2013/2014 admission to Nigeria National Diploma and National Innovative Diploma awarding institutions
Signed by the board’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, it said 109 degree awarding institutions attended the meeting while only 76 of them submitted lists of admitted candidates to the board
For Universities, the cut-off is 180, Justifying the reduction, Prof Ruf’ai said it was aimed at encouraging students to seek admission into Polytechnics and colleges of education
According to Dr. Ojerinde’s news release, 80,419 results were withheld for further scrutiny. Invariably, the additional scrutiny compromises the integrity of the Testing Standards and invalidates the Scoring system. Also, the additional scrutiny raise some Testing as well as Scoring issues including the nature of the Rubrics that will be used for scoring the answer sheets of the latter