Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB Central Admission Processing System
(CAPS) For 2017/2018 Admission – What It
Means?
Report from the ongoing JAMB policy meeting
indicates that JAMB has introduced the Central
Admission Processing System (CAPS) which is
geared towards ensuring quality control,
transparency and credibility of the admission
process.
According to a participant, the new policy is
expected to make provision for a 'market place'
in the JAMB portal where institutions can go
and 'request for students in Nigeria who score
their cut off points.'
These institutions will write to JAMB to request
for the students and also give them (students)
three days to respond. Also, only three
universities can request for a candidate if the
policy is adopted.
The new policy is also expected to allow
institutions in Nigeria peg their cut off point
after meeting with their respective senates.
What JAMB Central Admission Processing
System CAPS Does?
The new policy will also give the academic
board or senate of an institution the power to
'allocate percentages to JAMB, the school and
O'level results as these will be calculated to
get the students' cut off marks for post-UTME.'
It was also learnt that JAMB wants to ensure
there is a unified time for closing admission in
all universities.
If the policy sails through, there will be a portal
for admission which will be based on cut off
points, quota system and catchment areas.
"The new system is such that institutions can
only admit those who meet their cut off points,"
an admission officer for a tertiary institution
who was at the meeting said. "If a candidate
does not meet the cut off, no matter whom he
or she knows, such person cannot be admitted."
The official said the system was demonstrated
to all the attendees at Monday's meeting, most
of whom expressed satisfaction with it.
Also, the policy intends to make provisions for
candidates to accept and reject any admission
being offered to them.
The intended policy also looks out for
candidates who are unable to go for National
Youth Service, NYSC, because they do not have
JAMB admission letters. This set of students
could be asked to pay a fee, about N10,000 for
regularisation and would be able to go for the
youth service.