JAMB Registration Number Not To Disqualify Pre-degree & Part-Time Students From NYSC Scheme
JAMB registration number not to disqualify pre-degree & part-time students from NUSC scheme
There were cases of some graduates of some universities not mobilized for the Batch A 2013 NYSC Orientation programme and many people has blamed this on the authorities of the National Youth Service Corpse [NYSC]. NYSC has now come out with a message in her own defence. Continue reading to get the full gist:
The National Youth Service Corpse [NYSC] has explained that its recent requirement for the Joint Matriculation Admission Board JAMB registration number was not to disqualify the pre-degree students or Part-time students from serving but to reduce the cases of fake corps members and regulate the number of eligible and qualified participants from each schools.
The then Director of Public Relations unit, Mrs Abosede Aderibigbe, said this while speaking with our journalist in her office.
She also said that schools in the past are fond of sending names of unqualified persons for service, citing cases of corps members caught not able to write their names and when investigated, only to find out that they bought their ways into the lists.
It would also be recalled that the scheme which was recently announced it’s readiness to collaborate with the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and relevant bodies to ensure that only eligible graduates who pass through duly accredited full time courses are mobilised.
Aderibigbe went further to state that this step was not to put the pre-degree or the part-time students at a disadvantage as the part time students are automatically qualified for exemption letters.
But to regulate the exercise in order to make sure that only qualified prospective corps members are mobilised for service and to make all Corps Producing Institutions (CPIs) abide by the extant admission quota which is approved by the NUC and NBTE respectively, in making submission for mobilisation.
JÂAMB is the only approved examination regulatory body in Nigeria, and the management has come together to decides that JAMB admission number be used to ensure that only eligible students are mobilised for service, and when the question of those who gained admission through preliminary studies came up, the JAMB management asked the schools to bring the names of such students to enable it generate their numbers for them, but most of the schools refused.
Often, when they brought such names that did not correspond with the names we have in our computers, NYSC had to return to the school for rectification.
So speaking clearly, it is not the fault of the NYSC if any student misses mobilisation, she explained.
