JUST IN: FG MAKES U-TURN, SET 16-YEARS AS MINIMUM AGE FOR TERTIARY INSTITUTION ADMISSION
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According to information obtained by The Nation, 16-year-old applicants will be given consideration for admission to postsecondary institutions for the 2024–2027 academic year.
Stakeholders and attendees at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting were upset when Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, announced that only applicants who are at least eighteen years old would be admitted to higher education institutions in the nation going forward.
Every year, representatives from the nation’s tertiary institutions gather for the JAMB policy meeting to determine the proper cut-off scores for admissions for the upcoming academic year.
The meeting also establishes the standards by which all institutions must admit students and sets the tone for the year’s admissions process.
The hall at the ongoing meeting burst into raucous laughter as soon as Mamman said that only applicants who were 18 years of age and older were eligible for entrance.
“Are we together?” the minister had inquired, attempting to soothe tense feelings. The audience responded with a collective “no!”
Before everything returned to normal, JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede had to step in.
While reacting to the grumblings from the participants, he insisted that the law required that their children should be in school at 18 years, having attended six years in primary school, three years in Junior Secondary School, and three years in senior secondary school.
The Minister noted that the meeting was to ensure that the process of admission for 2024/2024 was fair.
He said the position of the Federal Ministry of Education had not changed from any institution that does admission outside the right process, which is the Central Application Process (CAP).
But the minister later accepted the suggestions of the stakeholders that those from 16 years and above should be eligible for this year’s admission while the law would apply from next year.
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