The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has stated the board’s stance against converting part-time students to full-time.
He also condemned some Nigerian institutions for operating what it termed illegal daily part-time programmes.
During a fact-finding mission to the Ibadan Zonal Office of JAMB in Oyo State, Oloyede addressed several concerns, asserting that many allegations against JAMB officials were unfounded.
“You are offered admission to run the OND programme on a part-time basis, and now that you want to apply for the HND programmes, you want the board to change your OND from part-time to full-time. How do we do that?” he questioned.
Blame on Students for Admission Issues
Oloyede stated that many affected students are responsible for their current predicaments due to their desperation to secure admission into higher institutions through unethical means.
“Most of the students have themselves to blame for whatever they are experiencing now, not JAMB,” he said.
Illegal Admissions and Name Changes
He cited cases such as students obtaining what he described as “under-tabled admission” years ago and others attempting to change their names long after admission.
“How do you explain a case of somebody who was given what could aptly be described as an under-tabled admission seven years ago and did not appear until now?” Oloyede asked.
He added, “Another case is that of somebody who had changed his name more than seven years ago and he/she is now coming back to us to effect a change.”
No Role in HND Admissions
Oloyede clarified that JAMB has no involvement in Higher National Diploma (HND) admissions. “The law does not allow JAMB to register candidates for any of the HND programmes,” he stated.
Condemnation of Daily Part-Time Programmes
Oloyede criticized institutions for admitting more part-time students than allowed and then graduating them as full-time students.
“You can now see the other dimension of what they called a daily part-time programme which is another illegality,” he said.
He noted that institutions often admit more students than their capacity permits, enrolling them as part-time but graduating them as full-time students, which creates discrepancies in records submitted to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
“The board has made returns to the NYSC about the students that are graduating that year. The point is that you don’t expect JAMB to change the daily part-time students to full-time,” Oloyede concluded.
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