The Nationwide Open College of Nigeria (NOUN) has addressed the intricacies surrounding the scholar loans for its college students.
Vice Chancellor of the Establishment, Prof. Olufemi Peters expressed issues over some deceptive statements and feedback indicating that college students of NOUN should not eligible to take part in pupil mortgage scheme.
Will probably be recalled that the administration of the Nigerian Training Mortgage Fund (NELFUND) had earlier mentioned NOUN college students are ineligible to use for the newly launched pupil mortgage.
Nonetheless, Peters mentioned that the data just isn’t right, and must be disregarded.
In keeping with him, the preliminary challenges that, maybe, led to the misinformation, was due to misrepresentation from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which has been corrected.
“There was a misrepresentation by JAMB on that matter, however they’ve since corrected it. Director of Admissions and even JAMB Registrar can attest to that.
“We all the time register our college students with JAMB each semester, and so they all possess JAMB registration quantity. Along with that, we strictly comply with the identical admission processes with different standard establishments.
“So, I can say for certain that our college students are captor in JAMB database which is main standards for accessing the mortgage. NOUN are eligible to benefit from the pupil mortgage scheme as a result of the preliminary challenges that was attributable to JAMB has been corrected.”
NELFund, few weeks in the past said that NOUN college students should not eligible to register for the scholars mortgage scheme due to their lack of ability to posses JAMB registration quantity which is a serious standards for accessing the fund.
The event created some nervousness and issues amongst NOUN college students who had needed to leverage on the chance of the scholars mortgage to accumulate college schooling.
