We're saving students from universities’ money-making machine — JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said its decision to redistribute candidates is to save them from universities’ money-making machine.

According to the head of JAMB, Lagos, Dr. Beatrice Okorie, the new admission policy saves students the trouble of paying for post-UTME exams at institutions that will not admit them.

“If we had not done that, many of these candidates would have fallen prey of the universities’ money-making machine, that is, the post-UTME without securing admission even with their high scores," Okorie said in a Vanguard report.

She said with the redistribution, candidates have a better chance at securing admissions without hassles.

“What we have done is to look at those who have not met with the cut-off points of UNILAG based on merit, catchment areas and the educationally less disadvantaged areas, but who have chances of securing admission in other federal and state universities and push them there to write post-UTME tests," she added.

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She noted that candidates can from Monday 3rd of August begin to check where they have been posted to on its website.

Okorie also strongly condemned universities who use the post UTME as a money-making exercise.