FULL LIST: JAMB Gives 14 Conditions To Absorb Sudan Returnee Students
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has listed modalities for the absorption of returnee students from war-torn countries into Nigerian universities.
The modalities are follow-ups to the high-level meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education (FME), the Federal Ministry of Health, the JAMB, Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), National Universities Commission (NUC), and other critical stakeholders on the integration of returnee Nigerian students from war-torn countries into the nation’s tertiary institutions.
JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, reeled out the modalities during a virtual meeting with vice chancellors of Nigerian universities and other critical stakeholders yesterday.
The JAMB boss said it was imperative to hold talks with the vice chancellors in view of the peculiarities of each university and the variations in the responses received from them on the matter.
According to the latest advisory on the procedures for emergency transfers of returning students, each of them is mandated to do a retroactive registration with the Federal Ministry of Education, visit the returnee application page on IBASS as accessible from the JAMB website where the returnee students would upload their registration slips, complete the transfer of personal data, which would include: name, NIN, telephone number, active e-mail account, current university, country, city of study and programme, year and current level of study.
Also, in the new procedures, the returnee students would select their university of choice and programme as well as upload the scanned copies of their current university admission letter, transcript, data page of their international passport and a sworn affidavit confirming the genuineness of uploaded documents.
The returnee-students are directed to click SUBMIT for onward movement to their university of choice, which would receive a notification as well as an IBASS mail on the application for evaluation of the returnee’s credentials. If the returnee is found worthy of admission, a notification is sent to him/her on the status of the admission.
Consequently, successful returnee students would be directed via email and SMS to approach any JAMB office in person to complete the inter- university transfer application.
In a statement by JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs, Fabian Benjamin, the registrar stressed that the emergency meeting was convened to fashion out uniform standards and minimum acceptable benchmarks for the proposed absorption in line with global best practices.
He also said the Senate of each university has the right to decide on university transfers and need not wait for JAMB to initiate such.
According to him, the parley with the stakeholders was to present the modalities for critique as well as receive inputs.
Oloyede urged the vice chancellors to key into the earlier advisory sent to their universities on the procedures for processing applications for foreign and domestic inter-university transfers.
The JAMB boss said the current advisory on the returnees did not override the earlier one but served to reinforce it by strengthening the procedures for transfers.
The registrar urged the vice chancellors to be vigilant and thoroughly scrutinise the certificates submitted to their institutions to avoid any pitfall that could impugn their hard-earned reputation.
