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JUST IN: 2017 UTME to commence May 6.

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The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the 2017 Unified Matriculation Tertiary Examinations will begin on May 6.

The board made the announcement in the early hours of Monday via its website.

The exams will run through to May 20, excluding May 12 to allow candidates write further mathematics examination for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

According to the board, sale of the 2017 application form will begin on March 20 and end on April 19.

Candidates are expected to pay N5,500 for the registration package which includes registration fees, reading text, syllabus and brochure.

“UTME 2017 exam starts May 6 to May 20, 2017 (excluding May 12, 2017 because of Candidates sitting for WAEC’s Further Maths exam),” the board wrote on Twitter.

“Sales of form ends on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 while the registration portal closes on Saturday, April 22, 2017.

“For direct entry candidates, the application will be on sale from Sunday, April 23, 2017.”

JAMB had earlier announced it would organise an optional mock examination for interested candidates and urged candidates to be wary of fraudsters who were circulating fake application forms.

In February, JAMB announced that it had completed a joint timetable with the management of the West African Examination Council and National Examination Council to avoid clashing examination dates.

 

Source: The Cable

Candidates with awaiting results can apply for UTME – JAMB

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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has dismissed reports that it has scrapped awaiting results for prospective candidates.

There had been reports that the examination body has barred candidates awaiting their ordinary level results from sitting for the UTME exams.

But on its Twitter page on Wednesday, JAMB said candidates with awaiting results can apply for the UTME.

The body said part if its press statement was misquoted by the media.

“JAMB has NOT scrapped Awaiting result for prospective candidates for the forthcoming exam.

“Candidates with Awaiting results can apply. But they must have gotten their results at the point of admission into their institution.

“If you apply with Awaiting Result at the point of registration, your result must be available while u go for screening for admission.

“JAMB will not deny any Candidate the right to quality education. Please don’t be misguided. Part of the press statement was misunderstood

“That is why during registration those with results will be uploading their results,while Awaiting Result candidates will not upload anything.”

We don’t have money to conduct UTME, says JAMB registrar.

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Is-haq Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB, has said that the board cannot adequately fund the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The professor said this in his Abuja office on Wednesday while he received a delegation of the senate committee on tertiary institutions and Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFund).

He said: “The major challenge facing the board has to do with funding; we take N5,000 from each candidate; we do not even have the money to conduct the examination.

“Rather, we call on third party to do some of the things and they only give some commission to JAMB, because we do not have enough money to invest.

“Conduct of examination across the country requires intensive human participation; you will recruit invigilators and monitors and then it costs so much money to set exam questions.

“The capital allocation is N1 billion; the release so far is N45. 57million; the overhead cost is N50 million allocated, but N24.9 million is what we have received so far.

“The N24.9 million given is not sufficient to pay electricity bills because all the 36 states and zonal offices depend on what comes from headquarters for their funding,” Oloyede explained.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oloyede also urged the National Assembly to review its decision to make the UTME result valid for three years.

JAMB scraps scratch cards, adopts pin vending for 2017 UTME.

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it will adopt “pin vending” for the 2017 UTME test, advising intending candidates to get familiar with the new approach.

The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said on Wednesday in Lagos that it would no longer use scratch cards.

He said, “Candidates, wishing to sit for the 2017 examination, should start getting themselves familiar with the newly adopted process of pin vending by the board.

“We must make ourselves open to change like it is obtained in other climes.

“We are no longer going back to the use of scratch card; that method is outdated.

“Candidates wishing to register for the examination will just make online payment and get a pin with which they can upload their data.

“This new pin vending will be accessible through the options of web payment, ATM issued cards like Visa, Verve, and Master card, online Quick Teller, mobile application and Bank Branch case/card.”

Benjamin assured that the board was working hard to redress all challenges experienced by candidates during its 2016 UTME as it was preparing for the 2017 diet.

He said that all hands were on deck to ensure a hitch free conduct of the examination across the country.

“Preparations are on to ensure that all the technical hitches that manifested in the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination do not arise again.

“That is not to say that the examination will be completely hitch-free.

“But we are deploying resources to correct the ones identified already.

“In the course of the examination, should there be any other new challenges, we will act promptly.’’

The spokesman also said that the board would begin validation of UTME centres across the country soon.

He said, “We shall be going round to the proposed centres to check the state of their facilities and also to ensure that such facilities could accommodate a minimum of 250 candidates.”

Some candidates, who sat for the 2016 examination, complained of various technical hitches.

Such challenges ranged from incomplete upload of questions from servers to poor backup facilities in some centres among others.

The board’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, recently announced the scrapping of the use of scratch card, describing it as outdated.

He said the board decided to do away with the method because of its consistent subjection to fraudulent practices.

Senate reduces UTME registration fee to N2,500, to extend validity period to 3yrs

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The Senate today passed a resolution reducing the registration fee of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to N2,500 from N5,650 that was paid by prospective university students this year. At the plenary session today, the senators recommended the extension of the validity period of the UTME to three academic year.

The resolution was taken following the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund on the inquiry into the new admission policy of the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB). They also resolved to amend the Act establishing JAMB to reflect the extension of the validity period which is at the moment a year.

35 Prison Inmates To Write 2016 UTME – Controller

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No fewer than 35 inmates from Ikoyi Prison in Lagos have registered to write the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Mr Vincent Ubi, the Controller of Prisons, Lagos Command, Nigeria Prisons Service, disclosed this in an interview withnewsmen on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that the inmates from the Ikoyi Prisons School would sit for the Computer-Based Test mode conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

More inmates are taking part in the examination this year, when compared to the 28 that sat for the examination in 2015. “The education of these inmates is of top priority to us. “Like I always tell them each time I go for routine checks in the prisons, their being incarceration does not mean all hopes are lost. “I usually remind them of the importance of education and the tremendous benefits that come with it, irrespective of the circumstance anyone might find him or herself.

“Now, with the UTME very much around the corner, we have been preparing these people fully in all the subjects and they have also improved on their level of computer literacy,’’ the controller said. He told pressmen that he had drafted his officers in the facilities to assist in teaching and preparing the inmates for the examination. Ubi commended the prison officials for their commitment toward ensuring improved performance of the inmates in the examination.

“I am proud of the commitment of my officers in the prison facilities in providing conducive teaching and learning environment. “The Prison Service has one of the highest numbers of educated personnel in terms of qualification. “So, we cash in on that by drafting some of them to serve as teachers in the facilities, aside other volunteer teachers that come from outside to assist.

“With all these in place, I will like to say that the performance of inmates has been very encouraging,’’ he said. Ubi said that all logistics required for the smooth conduct of the examination in the facility were in good shape and intact. According to the prison boss, more inmates are showing interest in furthering their education. He said that this was with the hope that when they eventually gain freedom, the inmates would be able to contribute their quota to the larger society.

Ubi said this was evident in the increased enrolment into schools in the facilities. The controller said the trend was not unconnected with the performance of their fellow inmates who had sat and performed well in the same examination. “Many of them are driven by the performance of their colleagues who have sat for the same examination and subsequently furthered their education at the National Open University of Nigeria located in the facilities.

“Some of the inmates from the NOUN have posted impressive performance at the end of their studies. “Of note is one of the inmates who graduated 2015 with first class, and is currently teaching other inmates in the prison facilities. “Such persons, if they are on life sentence, we often make a case to their respective state governments and their prerogative of mercy officer will take it from there to recommend such inmates for pardon.

“We have always assured the inmates of our maximum support in the area of their education and general welfare,’’ he said. In another interview, the Principal of Ikoyi Prison School, Mr Ibikunle Idris, said that 40 inmates were initially prepared for the UTME. He, however, said that because of intervention of justice, five of the prospective candidates, who were on the awaiting trial list, had been discharged and acquitted.