Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculations
Board (JAMB), says malpractice and indiscipline are some of the board’s major
challenges yet to be fully addressed.
The Registrar made this known when members of the Senate
Committee on Basic and Secondary Education visited the board’s headquarters in
Bwari, Abuja on Monday.
Oloyede said that the challenges, unfortunately, were mostly
with regards to parents trying to bend the system by all means and get their
wards or children into schools, irrespective of their performance.
“Our challenge remains examination malpractice, especially
with regards to parents who keep calling me to favour their wards or children
whether they meet the requirements of the system or not.
“There’s also indiscipline from the tertiary institutions
who admit against the Federal Government’s policy guidelines as mandated by the
Ministry of Education.
“At the end of the day, after admitting outside these
policies, they put pressure on students at the final moments towards graduation
to come back to us for what they call regularisation,” he said.
”We also have the same challenge from some private sectors
and dubious Computer Based Test (CBT) centres too and we are really putting
efforts to curb this.”
The Registrar said that the number of registered candidates
for 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was not up to 1.4
million, a low figure, when compared to 2.2 million in 2020.
He noted, however, that the mandatory use of National
Identity Number (NIN) helped the board to curb some of the malpractices usually
encountered during the UTME registration.
Oloyede said the malpractices included multiple and
fraudulent registration by candidates with irregular credentials.
He said that during the 2021 examination, the board’s
challenge shifted to security operatives attached to some of the centres, whom
he said allegedly smuggled fraudulent candidates into the examination hall.
“Even after they dodge the verification process where of
course the system would have identified them through their pictures, the
cameras at the centres immediately picked them and we were able to apprehend
them.
“That was when some of them said either their parents gave
the security operatives money to let them in or the candidates themselves
bribed their way in.
”So whether we like it or not, NIN helped us curb some of
these challenges at both the registration and examination exercise,” he added.
On JAMB’S budget performance for 2020, the Registrar noted
that the board remitted N4.1 billion to the Federal Government confers, stating
that staff welfare was paramount and they were adequately taken care of.
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