Authorities of the University of Ibadan have asked the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board not to to the varsity forward the list of candidates who successfully applied for admission for the 2021/2022 session.
The reason is that the institution is not admitting students for the session.
It will rather focus on those it had earlier admitted for the 2020/2021 session, as a result of the prolonged strike by lecturers, which practically neutralised an academic calendar.
The university made this known through its Public Relations Officer, Olatunji Oladejo, who also noted that students would resume on January 22.
“Academic activities will commence for those admitted for the renamed 2019/2020 on February 22, 2021,” he told our correspondent on the telephone on Friday,” Oladejo noted in an interview with ‘The Punch’, saying the Senate of the institution had approved the arrangement.
One of the approved recommendations is that the institution would not admit undergraduate students through the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board for 2021/2022 session.
Part of the approved recommendations are, “The 2019/2020 academic session be cancelled and the new session now renamed 2020/2021 academic session. The proposed calendar for 2019/2020 be accordingly changed to 2020/2021.
“The University should notify JAMB not to list it in its brochure for 2021/2022 session as candidates who have already registered for UI 2020/2021 Post-UTME would be taken for that session (2021/2022).
“The decision to not admit undergraduates for the 2021/2022 session, however, exempts postgraduate students and direct entry students from affiliated institutions.
“It also excludes those seeking admission into the distance learning programme in its centres (DLC).
“However, affiliated institutions, distance learning centre and postgraduate college would be allowed to admit students for the 2021/2020 session.”
