JAMB to live-stream maiden virtual policy meeting ahead of 2020 admissions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced that it will live-stream its first-ever virtual Policy Meeting of tertiary institutions on June 16 ahead of 2020 admission.

The meeting is holding online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exam body disclosed in its weekly bulletin on Monday in Abuja.

According to JAMB, the policy meeting is to be chaired by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, with all Heads of Tertiary Institutions in attendance, as well as top functionaries in the ministry.

“It would be recalled that part of the protocols put in place by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19 requires that no gathering of persons exceeds the prescribed number.

“Compliance with this directive has become imperative as no fewer than 4000 Heads of Tertiary Institutions comprising Degree, Diploma, NCE and NID-awarding institutions and other stakeholders would normally be expected to congregate at a location but because of extant protocols, would now be expected to participate in the virtual meeting.

“The modalities for the meeting would entail the board issuing only one access code to each participating institution to join the meeting. This access code is not to be shared or given to unauthorised persons.

“However, other critical stakeholders within the institutions like the Registrars, Admissions Officers can cluster around a big screen in a location to attend the meeting using the unique access code,” the exam body said.

JAMB revealed that heads of regulatory agencies and other critical stakeholders like chairmen of committees on Education at the lower and upper chambers of the National Assembly were also expected to join the meeting.

“The meeting will discuss critical issues bordering on the advances made in the educational sector in the last one year in addition to setting the tone for the 2020/2021 Admission exercise.

“The meeting will also chart policy directions for the nation’s tertiary institutions, set admission guidelines and make a holistic review of application statistics, performance as well as evaluate the 2019 admissions exercise.

“The meeting, in addition to other deliberations, would take a stand on concessional and acceptable minimum admissions standards to be applied in all admissions to be undertaken by all tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

“The meeting would be streamed live on the Board’s website; www.jamb.gov.ng, its Facebook, JAMBulletin and other social media platforms,” the exam body said. (NAN)