The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said its 2019 University Tertiary Matriculation Examination brochure will be on an automated and electronic online platform called Interactive Brochures and Syllabus System.
This was approved after a long deliberation by JAMB with the various university vice chancellors and heads of institutions present at the Board’s 2018 Policy Meeting held in Gbogan, Osun State.
“The review of the 2019 UTME brochure concludes that the brochure would be operated through IBASS; this can be accessed at ibass.jamb.gov.ng,” the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said.
According to him, the website would be an access to check Institutions’ requirements, change courses and collect credentials.
“On IBASS, you can log in through your email address as registered on the Central Admission Processing System, check your choice of school and its requirement. If you are eligible it will pop up and if not, schools that are likely to admit you will pop up,” he said.
The registrar further stated other features of the platform.
“Where a candidate is offered admission he does not want and he accepts by mistake, he can reject it on IBASS. Where a candidate is offered admission he desires to change, he can change it and in the case of vacancy, where a candidate wants to deny his admission and there is a candidate to replace him, he would be approved for the slot,” he said.
He, therefore, directed all institutions to review their requirements and the platform to collect, amend, delete or add for easy access by their prospective students.
“Each institution should view its present requirements and make online request for amendment, deletion or addition on the IBASS platform. Also, each institution is to collect its secured access credentials through its registered email address on CAPS,” the JAMB registrar said.
On this note, the registrar stated that the requests of various institutions would be on the platform.
“All approved requests would communicated via the platform, provided it is within the approved guidelines of the respective regulatory agency,” he said.
Oloyede also stated the need to make admission international and improve the education system worldwide, saying, “We need to make admissions to be international, to nationalise the localised areas.”
He maintained that the platform would show the approved candidates for an institution, and if the institution failed to admit students at the time for admission, the applicants would be transferred from the institution to another.
