The Joint Admissions and articulation Board(JAMB) has explained the reasons for the inability of some institutions to access its portal for the purchase of Direct Entry forms.
JAMB spoke when a delegation from the Community Health Practitioners
Registration Board of Nigeria(CHPRBN) visited its office in Bwari.
The Board said it would only grant access to institutions or
organisations that complied with
guidelines including obtaining
necessary approvals from
appropriate regulatory agencies
and the Federal Ministry of
Education to run their various
programmes.
Earlier, the CHPRBN had complained
of the inability of their candidates to
process their Direct Entry forms as
they were unable to access their
profiles on the JAMB portal while
those that opted for the UTME route
had, as a footnote on their admission
letter, the term illegitimate’.
The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede,
pointed out that JAMB was saddled
with the responsibility of managing
accessibility to institutions and
candidates and would always uphold that mandate diligently and, such would only grant access to erring institutions after they had done due diligence and complied with all regulations stipulated by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and other relevant institutions.
According to the Registrar, it has
come to the notice of the Board that
many institutions flagrantly run
programmes and award certificates
that were not approved by their
regulatory agencies and candidates, who were not qualified, ab initio, for Direct Entry(DE), were enrolled in such programmes to acquire certification for DE thereby circumventing the system.
He informed the delegation that it
consequently upon these observations that many institutions, were noted to have abused the system by running diploma programmes without necessary approvals were removed from the list of iinstitutions on the Board’s platform and denied access to the Board’s portal until they do the right thing.
Prof. Oloyede also reminded
CHPRBN delegation of the Federal
Government’s circular as issued by
the Federal Ministry of Education to
all statutory and regulatory
agencies prohibiting organisations
and institutions that are yet to get
approval or proper certification from
the ministry to operate.
The Registrar, therefore, advised
CHPRBN to support the reforms as a
key player by doing the right thing at
all times by getting necessary
approvals from the NBTE to run ND,
Higher National Diploma(HND)in
Community Health before the
commencing the issuance of any
certification or licences.
Earlier, the leader of the delegation
of CHPRBN, Prof. Abdullahi Sabo
Muhammed, gave a brief history and
scope of the operational processes
of his Board and said their mission to
JAMB, aside from registering
, complaints on access denial, was to
plead with its leadership for a waiver
to all candidates, who had finished
their diploma programmes from
past years to advance the
pursuit of their careers.
CHPRBN also prayed JAMB to
amend its brochure to read
“Bachelor of Community
Health(Bcho)’ and not Bachelor of
Sciences (B.Sc.) while the duration
should be 2 years as against 4 years
hitherto stated in the brochure.
At the end of the courtesy visit, the
Registrar assured CHPRBN of its
continued support provided they do
the right thing by getting relevant
approval from the NBTE.
