Osaghae said: “The standards that the universities have are not the same. If you want to push all the universities to have the same standard, then you are negating the whole essence of competitiveness
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Onafowokan, a Senior Lecturer, School of Management and Social Sciences, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Sango-Ota, Ogun State.
The Senate adopted the recommendation that the UTME results should have a validity period of three years to reduce the financial burden on parents
He said that the meeting was an indication that the board was ready to attend to legitimate requests of its stakeholders and clients in the collective quest for efficiency
The groups were Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria, Federation of Muslim Women Association in Nigeria, Muslim Community of Oyo State, Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates Association, Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria and Muslim Consultative Forum
The don said the opportunity now given to tertiary institutions to choose their candidates should have been the first thing to do before the post-UTME was scrapped
The examination body said this was to ensure that the University Senate performs its statutory responsibility of conducting the selection of candidates and refer it to JAMB for confirmation in line with the admission criteria of merit, catchment and educationally disadvantaged states as directed by the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, at the policy committee meeting
According to Benjamin, the board has sacrificed a lot to ensure that this mode is achieved and sustained irrespective of some little challenges.
He said: “This CBT mode has come to stay and there is no going back on that
The policy meeting, which is to set the tone for the exercise, will be presided over by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu
NAN reports that no fewer than 1.6 million candidates participated in the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on the all Computer Based Test platform
“As candidates are auto-timed to respond to questions, a slow Internet means that even before student was able to load question, his or her time was off and therefore scored zero for that question.
According to Ohakwe, one of the students from the home scored 268 points, the highest among the visually challenged students.
She noted that a major headache facing the home was how to get sponsors for these candidates, so that they could proceed for higher education
Before now, JAMB exclusively conducted exams into Nigerian universities, which it christened the Universities Matriculation Examination. But in 2010, the exams body expanded its tentacles to include entrance examinations to polytechnics, colleges of education and monothecnics, under the tag of UTME
Even though with Nigeria’s more than 100 universities, a dozen polytechnics, with numerous colleges of education, accommodating the millions of candidates, qualified for admission in the few available spaces has been an uphill task. Therefore desperate candidates over the years have deployed all manner of tricks to come out tops in the exams or at least, cross the minimum benchmark of scores pegged for admission
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board had in accordance with the promise made Nigerians in ensuring that candidates who missed the 2016 UTME due to their relocation are given equal opportunity to take the rescheduled examination fixed for March 23, 2016.
He said: “I want to say that we are making efforts to come up with new selection method and approval of the centres we shall be using for the conduct of our examination henceforth
Odoma, who spoke at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, clarified that her group was not holding brief for the examination body, but that it would be sad to see the innovations brought in by the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, rolled back on account of hitches experienced this year
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) therefore declares the 2016 UTME exercise as a colossal fiasco, a monumental scandal and a national embarrassment
The statement reads: “The attention of the Board has been drawn to a planned protest (tomorrow, Tuesday in Lagos) over the Board’s activities by individuals who called themselves education consultants. JAMB has called for calm and advised candidates to always avail themselves of the opportunity provided by the board through it public complaints unit to vent their grievances and not to allow blackmailers to use them for any selfish interest
The coordinator, however, added that the board had since rectified the issues and stressed that no candidate participating in the ongoing UTME would suffer any penalties as a result of such