Senate Order’s JAMB to Extend Validity of Jamb Results to 3 years!!!

Senate Order’s JAMB to Extend Validity of Jamb Results to 3 years

The joint admission and matriculation board Jamb has been directed by the Nigerian senate to begin extending the validity of its Jamb result to 3 years. Jamb which also began redistributing candidates to other school  has been order to stop such policy as it was against the act of establishing the jamb examination board.
When this order passed out by the senate i put into play, results obtained from the Jamb tertiary examination can  now be used by candidates seeking admission into universities for a maximum of three years.
The order which came from the red chamber following a Motion titled “Jamb New Policy” raised by Senator  Joshua  Lidani of the APC, Gombe South, which was debated during plenary,Senator  Joshua  Lidani urged JAMB to consult intensive with Parents Teachers Association, ASUU and all other major players  in the Nigerian  education sector with a view to providing a friendlier holistic, comprehensive and sustainable admissions policy.

JAMB’s policy of posting candidates to schools, including private universities whose fees was also criticized , as he noted that most of those Private universities where students where re-posted to  were beyond the means of the candidates’ parents  or guardians, saying in some cases, candidate were posted to universities located far away from their state thus creating  additional financial burden on their financier.

Senator Lidani expressed concern that since the policy was announced, the board was faced with series of massive protests by parents  and candidates of and some organizations like the Association of Tutorial School Operators of Nigeria as well as other numerous stakeholders.

He said JAMB, at its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting, held on July 14, 2015, in Abuja, announced the adoption of a policy whereby candidates of universities with surplus applicants for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, were reassigned to other universities with lower number of candidates than their capacities.

While noting that JAMB was a board created by an Act of the National Assembly in 1989 to administer a centralized admission for universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria.

So we will want to know what you think about Jamb extending the validity of its jamb result to three(3) years?