2017 admission:JAMB releases cut-off marks today

After the day’s policy committee meetingBy Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB,is expected to release cut-off points for this year’s admission into universities,polytechnics,colleges of education and monotechnics today.The release of the country’s tertiary institutions’ admission benchmark would be a fallout of a policy committee meeting the board is holding with all stakeholders in the education sector on the said day.The policy committee meeting which is holding in Abuja, would be attended by vice- chancellors, reactors and provosts of public universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and monotechnics.The release of the cut-off marks would end the anxiety that has since enveloped candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME, in preparation for admission this year.Similarly, the release of the marks signals the express permission to the eligible tertiary institutions to begin the year’s admission of would-be students.Ahead of the

admission, JAMB had warned institutions against shortchanging candidates whose performances merit admission, saying it would not condone such act.