JAMB commences survey on Nigeria universities e-Learning option

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced survey on if Nigerians would like to earn degrees online through electronic education otherwise known as eLearning, reports DigitalSENSE Campus Pavilion.
Nigerians students can now study and obtain degree at their own pace through e-learning facility provided by Nigerian universities. Will you like the opportunity to study at your own pace using the e-Learning platform.
Meanwhile JAMB is showcasing the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and has advised potential candidates to retrieval their registration number; Verification of results, printing of result slips, check admission status, printing of admission letter for Direct Entry (DE) inclusive and amended data for regularized candidate only.
DigitalSENSE Campus Pavilion reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) is Nigeria’s official entrance examination board for tertiary-level institutions.
These examinations, DigitalSENSE Campus Pavilion recalls are being administered for most students who choose to apply to Nigerian public and private mono-technics, polytechnics, and universities.
Most of these candidates must already have concluded their external examinations, administered either by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) or the Nigerian National Examinations Council (NECO).
Meanwhile, the ongoing ASUU strike is not affecting the sale of JAMB forms, says the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde.
He explained that despite the ongoing strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the activities of the Board would not be affected, especially as it concerns the sale of forms for next year’s Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Professor Ojerinde, who made the disclosure while responding to questions on why JAMB embarked on sale of forms when the last batch of successful candidates were yet to secure admissions into the universities, said the strike could not deter JAMB from selling forms, noting that the universities would know how to handle the situation.
“The universities will know how to sort the situation to ensure that the two batches are admitted. JAMB cannot wait for the universities that are on strike; after all, private universities will also have to admit and we cannot stop the exam unless we don’t want private universities to admit. In any case, the federal universities know how to handle the situation to ensure that the backlog is not many, and if any of them informs JAMB that it cannot admit, we will delete that university from the admission exercise for this year,” he said.
Professor Ojerinde, however, noted that so far, none of the universities had approached JAMB that it could not admit and should be delisted because it still had a pending batch, noting that most of the universities had been doing their admissions, with some of them having completed the admission exercise.
“University of Benin has done 100 per cent of its admission; Obafemi Awolowo University has done more than 70 per cent, and even LAUTECH has done its admission. The only university that I know has a problem is the University of Maiduguri and that is because of the Boko Haram debacle. So, they will sort things out,” he added.
It will be recalled that the UTME platform had collapsed matriculation examinations into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, another reason advanced by JAMB for the sales of JAMB forms despite the strike action by university lecturers.
DigitalSENSE Campus Pavilion notes that by 1974, there were seven federal universities in the country, with every one conducting its own concessional examination and admitting students. Nevertheless, this system of admission revealed serious limitations and quite often waste of resources in the process of administering the concessional examination, especially on the part of the candidates.
The overall disorder therefore in the uncoordinated system of admissions into universities and the attendant problems were sufficient cause for concern to the committee of vice chancellors.
In the 2009 University Matriculation Exam, the grading system of the normally reputable examination body was subject to serious controversy when the overall performance was one of the poorest on records.
Much to JAMB’s embarrassment, it was later revealed that the machines which optically graded the papers had erroneous answers and the JAMB changed some students scores by as much as 15 per cent.
These problems had assumed new dimensions when by 1976, the then federal military government, under the leadership of General Olusegun Obasanjo, established six additional universities. Consequently, the government set up a national committee on university entrance under the chairmanship of Mr. M. S. Angulu.
*Additional reports from Nigerian Tribune


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