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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has rolled out modalities for the absorption of returnee students from war-torn countries into Nigerian universities.
JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development on Wednesday.
Benjamin said the modalities were follow-ups to the high level meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, JAMB, Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), National Universities Commission(NUC) and other critical stakeholders.
He said the meeting was on the integration of returnee Nigerian students from war-torn countries into the nation’s tertiary education system.
He quoted the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, while presenting the modalities as saying that it was imperative to hold talks with the Vice Chancellors following the peculiarities of each university and the variation in the responses received from them on the matter.
Oloyede pointed out that the emergency meeting was, therefore, convened to fashion out uniform standards and minimum acceptable benchmarks for the proposed absorption in line with global best practices.
