The Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board, JAMB, has kicked against the recommendation by the
Senate that all results for entry into tertiary institutions should last
for three years.
The examination body said it will distort and delay the future of students across the country if enacted.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu
Ojerinde, said this in Abuja during the opening ceremony of JAMB-UNEB
Benchmark on Item Banking.
He said, “There are complexities in
this thing, until we are able to clear it. When you say you will use
JAMB results for three years, is it an achievement test or aptitude
test? However, are we delaying his or her life? Are we postponing his or
her life by telling them to stay at home? If by next year he doesn’t
get the cut off points, what happens?
“I have nothing against the idea,
because we will tell the children, ‘those bluffing Polytechnics and
College of Education, go there and waste their time’, if it is a waste
of time.”
She also told newsmen that the body
had concluded plans to stop cyber cafés across the country from
registering candidates for tertiary education examinations.
“In the final analysis, cyber cafes
are not allowed to register candidates for a number of reasons. Cyber
cafés may have their address here today, tomorrow they are somewhere
else,” he emphasised.
The Minister of Education, Adamu
Adamu, represented by the Director of Tertiary Education, Hajia Hindatu
Abdullahi, stated that “the results of large scale examinations
conducted by examination bodies, such as JAMB, NECO and NABTEB, are
necessary for decision making and should therefore be credible.”
She said, “Consequently, the
deployment of technology is very imperative if the results must be
reliable. The role of technology in education cannot be over emphasised.
Electronic item banking is consequent on the use of technology for item
analysis and calibration.”
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