As we gear up for 2021 admissions, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates against accepting any admission that does not pass through its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) as an offer of admission not validated on JAMB CAPS is invalid.
According to JAMB, there have been complaints from the general public that some Universities have devised a method of “offering admission” to candidates outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) on their own designated portals.
JAMB described this as a deliberate act done with the intent to lure unsuspecting candidates to accept other programmes (courses) aside from their programmes (courses) of choice.
This simply means that even if your name is listed among the names of admitted students by a school on its portal. If the school fails to upload such a list to the JAMB portal, the admission is not yet valid and such admission is not recognised by JAMB.
The board re-emphasised that the CAPS system is designed among other things to:
i. prevent institutions from unilaterally changing or proposing a candidate for admission into other programmes (courses) other than his/her chosen one;
ii. disallow an institution to skip a higher ranking candidate to pick a less ranking candidate;
iii. allow an institution to recommend a substitute programme for the consent or rejection by a relatively low-ranking candidate who is not likely to secure a place in his/her initial programme; and
iv. allow a low-ranking candidate on each programme to, on his or her own, opt-out of consideration from the initial programme and be considered for a programme where he/she ranks high enough to be considered.
It, therefore, warned that any candidate who accepts such an offer of admission does so at his or her own risk as there will be no regularisation of any irregular or illegal admission.
The board added that appropriate caution has been given to these universities which are to promptly withdraw and desist from such illegitimate action and any such act will henceforth be visited with appropriate sanctions
