The Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has added physical and health
education and computer studies into next year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination.
The board
said the two subjects would help to widen opportunities for candidates so that
they can access tertiary education.
Registrar of
JAMB, Prof Is- haq Oloyede said this during an interview with reporters after
receiving an award of excellence from the Education Correspondents Association
of Nigeria (ECAN).
“The next
issue is the campaign we have just introduced; Physical and Health Education
and Computer Studies as UTME subjects.
“We are
asking and sensitising the public, particularly the students who are to take
the exam, that these are two Science subjects that will be added to their
choice to widen opportunities for candidates to be able to access tertiary
education,” he said. He said the board would go after students using fake certificates
to secure admission.
“We appeal
for support (on the issue) of fake certificates. Issuance and usage of fake
certificates to secure admission into our institutions particularly at the A
level candidates. “We are working very hard to tighten the noose and make it
impossible for those who engage in such an illicit action to succeed,” the
registrar said.
The
registrar also said the Board was working to clear the backlog of illegal
admissions conducted by tertiary education institutions in the country.
Oloyede said
the decision is to rescue students who have the requisite qualifications but
were admitted illegally.
“(On) the
issue of illegal admission that we want to put a halt to. We want to clear the
backlog and ensure that those of them who have been improperly admitted but
have the minimum qualification are rescued.
“We want to
continue the campaign to discourage those who are committing such illegal
action to stop doing such,” Oloyede said. Speaking on the 2022 UTME, Oloyede
said the Board has decided to adopt a cashless system in the registration
process, adding that JAMB would also prohibit Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres
from selling e-PINs to guard against extortion of candidates.
The
registrar said: “On our campaign on cashless CBT centres, particularly during
our registration exercise. It is known that many CBT centres, despite the
supervision, still manage to exploit candidates.
“We want to
put a stop to that, we have intensified monitoring but part of what we are
doing is to ensure we protect the students against this extortion, and that is
why we are asking all those (the candidates pay through us) and we will pay the
centres (their service charge)….. with this anybody who collects money from the
centre would have been seen to have done a wrong thing because you are not supposed
to collect any money you…
“We are also
going to ensure that ePIN is not something that they will be selling at the
(CBT) centres. We will ensure that anybody who wants to sell ePIN will not be a
CBT centre, once you are a CBT centre you have lost the right to sell ePIN so
that we can hold the ePIN sellers responsible for what they do.
“Once you
are a CBT centre you cannot also say you want to sell ePIN.” While commending
the media for its role as a representative of the people and in promotion of
good governance, Oloyede called for support in the various campaigns embarked
upon by the Board to ensure a better admission system.
The JAMB
boss expressed deep appreciation to ECAN for considering him worthy of the
Award.
He said :
“We appreciate the gesture and I want to assure you you have not done this in
vain. The objective of presenting this Award will be attained. The purpose is
to be able to encourage us to do more of what we have been assigned to us by
the Federal Government. I assure you, we will deliver on the mandate.”
Chairman of
ECAN, Chuks Ukwuatu, said the Award of Excellence, which comes every five
years, was bestowed on Oloyede for his achievements in JAMB.
While saying
it was initiated to encourage performance, the ECAN chairman said Oloyede was
singled out for the Award for promoting transparency, sanitising the nation’s
admission system, weekly publication of financial transactions of the Board,
among others.
“The Award
was initiated to encourage performance because we know if we get it right in
education, we will also get it right in all spheres of the economy,” Ukwuatu
added.
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