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JAMB Issues Warning To Universities Giving Certificates ‘Without Matriculation’
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has called out universities to stop issuing certificates to students without proper matriculation.
According to JAMB, some tertiary institutions are graduating students who have never matriculated.
Ishaq Oloyede, the board’s registrar, said some of the suspected institutions have failed to matriculate any student in the last five years.
According to JAMB’s latest bulletin, Oloyede spoke during a two-day refresher training for all its admission desk officers.
The training was held at the JAMB headquarters in Abuja last week.
Oloyede said admitting students for a degree programme without matriculation amounts to a flagrant disregard for extant regulations of the board.
“A number of them got approval to operate no doubt, but they never bother following other requisite regulations thereafter, they just continue running the institutions their own way,” he said.
“How can a school that never admitted any candidate continue to issue certificates and graduating students?”
Oloyede said the erring institutions who did not matriculate their students in any given year will be regarded as not having admitted students in that year.
He said that the universities would merely be putting their programs at jeopardy since graduates would not be mobilized for their mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Scheme.
Oloyede directed the desk officials to maintain continual communication with institutions, especially if there is any reason why the schools should not be allowed to matriculate.
