The Joint Board of Admissions and Matriculation (JAMB) has announced that registration for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation and Direct Entry Examination (UTME/DE) will begin on February 12 and last until March 19, 2022.
JAMB has also added ‘Computer Science’ and ‘Health and Physical Education’ to the existing 23 UTME subjects, bringing the number of the new subjects available to 25.
The testing body said candidates can now choose two other subjects as part of their four UTME subjects if they wish or as dictated by their program preferences.
Rejects NABTEB At Levels
Meanwhile, JAMB admissions director Mohammed Ahmed has written to university vice-chancellors, asking them to reject A-level results from the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB).
Mr. Ahmed said that the relevant government policies do not allow NABTEB to conduct advanced level exams.
As stated in the latest weekly bulletin of the Board published on Monday, Mr. Ahmed said: “Therefore, any GCE A/L certificate issued by NABTEB cannot be registered in JAMB and the Board would not process the admission of any candidate. with such a result. ”
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Meanwhile, JAMB Registrar Ishaq Oloyede, a professor, also added that the examining body has constituted a working group to coordinate the admission process of foreign nationals who participated in UTME 2021 and are seeking admission to Nigerian tertiary institutions.
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Mr. Oloyede told the Pro Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Sulyman Kuranga and the Vice Chancellor, Charles Esimune, both professors, when they paid him a courtesy call last week.
He said the board’s desire is to grow Nigeria’s tertiary institutions and “reverse the trend of Nigerians leaving the country to study at foreign universities and instead seeing foreign students coming to Nigeria in large numbers to fill admission slots at our tertiary institutions.
He said that part of the team’s tasks is to compile the results of foreign candidates and send them to tertiary institutions for admission consideration.
Team members include Director, Test Administration, Munirat Lawal; director of information technology services, Fabian Okoro; and the director of admissions, Mohammed Ahmed.