Sudan War: Admissions Board, JAMB To Place Evacuated Students In Nigerian Universities

The  Co-admissions  Board has  introduced   a   system   to   enroll   returnees  from Sudan and other war-torn countries into Nigerian universities. 

 This was  announced   Wednesday  in a statement by JAMB  spokesman  Fabian  Benjamin.  He noted that the  move   is   a   follow-up  to  high-level  meetings  between the Federal Ministry of Education,  the  Federal Ministry of Health, JAMB,  the   Diplomacy  Nigeria  Commission,  the  National Universities Commission and other  key  stakeholders.  

JAMB said the  conference   will   focus  on integrating Nigerian students from  the  war-torn  country  into the  country's   higher  education system. 

 Professor  Is-haq Oloyede,  JAMB   Registrar,   presented   the   modalities   and  said it was  essential  to  have   discussions  with the  vice-chancellors,   given  the  particularities  of each university and the  varying  responses  received on the  subject.   rice   field. 

Oloyede pointed out that the emergency meeting was, therefore, convened to fashion uniform standards and minimum acceptable benchmarks for the proposed absorption in line with global best practices.  

The JAMB chief also stated that the senate of each university had the right to decide on university transfers and needed not to wait for JAMB to initiate such, adding that the parley with the stakeholders was to present the modalities for critique and receive inputs. 

 Oloyede reminded the vice-chancellors to key into the earlier advisory sent to universities on the procedures for processing applications for foreign and domestic inter-university transfers. 

“According to the latest advisory on procedures for emergency transfers of returning students, each of them is mandated to do a retroactive registration with the education ministry,” the exam board registrar explained. 

He added, “They are to visit the returnee application page on IBASS as accessible from the JAMB website, where the returnee students would upload their registration slips, complete the transfer of personal data.” 

According to the new procedures, the returnee students would select their preferred university of choice and programme and upload the scanned copies of their current university admission letter, transcript, data page of their international passport and an affidavit confirming the genuineness of uploaded documents.