The 2024 admissions process will commence with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) convening a policy meeting on Thursday.
The annual policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination (JAMB) is scheduled to take place this week, marking the commencement of the admissions process for the nation’s tertiary institutions.The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, will
preside over the 2024 policy meeting, scheduled for Thursday, July 18, in
Abuja. This pivotal meeting will serve as the official authorization for the
commencement of this year’s admission process.
The board announced In its weekly news bulletin yesterday
that this year’s exercise will include the National Tertiary Admissions’
Performance-Merit Award (NATAP-M Awards). The overall winner will receive a
cash prize of N500 million, while other consolation winners will collectively
share N250 million.
The upcoming policy meeting, typically attended by esteemed
vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics, and
innovation enterprise institutes, provosts of colleges of education, and other
key stakeholders, will deliberate upon and formally endorse the guidelines for
the 2024 admission process.
The purpose of this meeting Is to assess the effectiveness
of the 2023 admissions process and analyze the performance of candidates in the
2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The minimum admission scores, which are a compilation of
individual institutions’ submissions, will be ratified at the forthcoming
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.””