JAMB Warns Students Running Daily Part Time Programmes

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned students running daily part time programmes that they were actually on their own .

And such students are actually in their millions going by the flourishing number of students nationwide desiring higher education.

According to the board, any daily part-time programme that is organised by any institution is nothing but a fraud.

As JAMB Warns students running daily part time programmes, it explains that  part-time programmes are typically run on weekends or a particular period like Friday.

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Such programmes are targeted at education -desiring persons who do not have time to attend regular programmes, it says and not as a routine.

The board’s clarification follows complaint by a student who said he did a daily part-time (Ordinary National Diploma) OND programme at Lagos State Polytechnic, but the board has taken exceptions to that.

“Daily Part-Time program is nothing but fraud. Part-time programs are designed for a particular set of people who do not have time to attend regular programs and is typically run by weekends or a particular period like Friday evening while regular programs run daily Monday to Friday even Saturday in rare cases.

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“The question is how would an institution be running a regular program as part-time especially where such a program is not known to the regulators.

“DPT program is void and will not be condoned under whatever guard”, the JAMB warns students.

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