Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rolled out modalities for absorption of returnee students from war-torn countries into Nigerian universities.
The arrangement is a follow-up to the high-level meeting between the Federal Ministries of Education, Health, JAMB, Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), National Universities Commission (NUC) and other critical stakeholders on integration of returnee Nigerian students into the nation’s tertiary education system.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, while presenting the modalities at a virtual meeting with vice chancellors (VCs) and relevant stakeholders on Wednesday, said it was imperative to hold talks with the administrators following peculiarities of universities and variations in responses on the matter.
He noted that the emergency meeting was to fashion out uniform standards and minimum acceptable benchmarks for the proposed absorption in line with global best practices.
Oloyede clarified that Senates of tertiary institutions have the right to decide on transfers, adding that the parley was to present the modalities for critique and input.
He charged the VCs on an earlier advisory on procedures for processing applications for foreign and domestic inter-university transfers, adding the fresh one does not override the former, but reinforces it.
Goodwill messages were taken from representatives of the affected bodies, who aligned themselves with JAMB and promised to support the initiative.
According to the latest advisory on procedures for emergency transfers of returning students, each of them is mandated to undertake a retroactive registration with the education ministry, visit the returnee application page on IBASS as accessible from the JAMB website, where they would upload their registration slips, complete the transfer of personal data, which would include: name, NIN, telephone number, active e-mail account, current university, country, city of study and programme, year and current level of study.
The returnee students are to select their preferred universities, programmes and upload scanned copies of their admission letters, transcripts, data pages of their international passports and a sworn affidavit confirming genuineness of uploaded documents.
They are directed to click SUBMIT for a notification, as well as an IBASS mail on application for evaluation of the returnees’ credentials. If found worthy of admission, the returnee gets a notification.
Consequently, successful returnee students would be directed via an email and SMS to approach any JAMB office in person to complete the inter- university transfer application.
Oloyede urged the vice chancellors to be vigilant and thorough with submitted certificates to check pitfalls that could impugn their reputation.
