The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) has said it did not fix the tertiary
institutions minimum admission cut-off marks,
contrary to reports.
JAMB had announced that minimum cut-off
marks for the university degree for the 2017
academic year be put at 120, Polytechnics and
Monotechnics at 100.
The body said the decision was a collective
decision of stakeholders in the education sector.
JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede while
speaking on Wednesday said the cut-off marks
was an unanimous agreement between
stakeholders.
Oloyede said the decision will not reduce the
quality of education as feared by Nigerians.
He added that individual institutions could raise
their admission benchmark higher but not above
180 and below 120 for universities.
“With this decision, universities are not to go
below the minimum 120 cut-off points adopted
by the meeting for admissions,” he said.
“What JAMB did was a recommendation,we only
determined the minimum, whatever the various
institutions determine as their admission cut-off
mark is their decisions. The Senate and
academic boards of universities should be
allowed to determine their cut-off marks.“