June 08, (THEWILL) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has unveiled modalities for the absorption of returnee students from Sudan and other war-torn countries into Nigerian universities.
The modalities are follow-ups to the high-level meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education (FME), Federal Ministry of Health, JAMB, Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), National Universities Commission (NUC), and other critical stakeholders.
A statement issued by Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Public Affairs of JAMB, said the modalities are based on the integration of returnee Nigerian students from war-torn countries into the nation’s tertiary education system.
JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, unveiled the modalities at a virtual meeting with vice chancellors of Nigerian universities and other critical stakeholders on Wednesday.
He said the meeting was convened to fashion out uniform standards and minimum acceptable benchmarks for the proposed absorption of the returnee students in line with global best practices.
Prof. Oloyede, however, emphasised the Senate of each university had the right to decide on university transfers and need not wait for JAMB to initiate such, adding that the parley with the stakeholders was to present the modalities for critique as well as receive inputs.
The Registrar reminded Vice Chancellors to key into the earlier Advisory sent to universities on the procedures for processing applications for foreign and domestic inter-university transfers, stating that the current Advisory on the returnees does not override that earlier one.
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 FME, 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, which would include: name, NIN, telephone number, active email account, current university, country, city of study and programme, year and current level of study.
The returnee students would select their preferred university of choice, programme and upload the scanned copies of their current university admission letter, transcript, data page of their international passport and a sworn affidavit confirming the genuineness of uploaded documents.
The statement added that, “They are also directed to click SUBMIT for onward movement to their university of choice, which would receive a notification as well as an IBASS mail on the application for evaluation of the returnee’s credentials. If the returnee is found worthy of admission, a notification is sent to him/her on the status of the admission.
“Consequently, successful returnees students would be directed via email and SMS to approach any JAMB Office in person to complete the inter- university transfer application.”
