The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has called on stakeholders to join hands with the board to restore the lost glory of the nation’s education sector.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, explained that the desire of the body is for all concerned to take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination as their own and make it a project.
According to Oloyede, the process and products of the examination would end up in the various tertiary institutions across the country and as such, stakeholders should be mindful of the process.
He said, “Whatever level of preparation carried out by us towards the conduct of the 2017 examination, if it is not well supervised, it will not produce the kind of results we expect.
The Board is placing a clarion call to all stakeholders to ensure that all hands are on deck to make the conduct of public examination better.
“I therefore urge all stakeholders, especially our tertiary institutions, to be actively involved in the supervision of the board’s examination, which will at the end benefit all and boost the quality of candidates that will be admitted into various institutions.
No sacrifice in this regards would be too big or too small to make by them and all Nigerians, as no amount can be paid to them that is worth their integrity.”
The JAMB boss explained that from the 2017/2018 UTME the board would be adopting different automated reporting forms for examination officials.
He stated that the forms had been reviewed and now designed to be responsive to issues at centres to serve as a quick signal for both the examination and centre situations.
“A new structure has also been put in place for the administration of the examination.
We have introduced officials such as the Chief External Examiners, Zonal External Examiners, External Examiners, Peace Monitors etc.
“As part of our approach to the ideal of inclusiveness, we invited all Central Bank of Nigeria approved commercial banks to participate in the sale of the 2017 Board’s Application Documents.
About 16 commercial banks and NIPOST honoured and attended the interactive session, where we explained the reason and need for all of them to partake in the exercise,” Oloyede added.
