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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates of its examinations that it would no longer....
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates of its examinations that it would no longer cancel results and said all candidates would henceforth get their results weather they gained admission or not.
Chairman of the Governing Board of JAMB, Dr. Kema Chikwe who disclosed this while on a courtesy call to the Minister of Education, Dr. (Mrs.) Obiageli Ezekwesili, said following the accelerated processing in concluding this year's Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) results, released results can be accessed online as from tomorrow.
She stressed that the full automation of JAMB will resolve most of the inconsistencies and irregularities of JAMB operations. She revealed that JAMB has gone completely on-line for all registrations in line with the repositioning order given them by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
'This total automation will revolutionalize the entire educational system in the nation. Since education is the basis of all other development, our online examination will translate to e-education and result to e-government. You hold the key. We are committed to partnering with you", she said.
In her response, Ezekwesili congratulated JAMB for efforts being put towards a brand new image. She stressed that the education sector is in crisis with deep challenges that must be addressed urgently.
'In the education sector, there are challenges, very deep challenges as a matter of fact I consider this sector, a sector in crisis.
When you are in crisis you don't touch on the symptoms but look for the fundamental distortions that are creating challenges for you and so for us JAMB being an important brand within the family of the education sector, we do need to go into very incisive diagnosis of the root of the kinds of challenges that we are dealing with.
'And I dare say that some of the things you have began to do because most families before now we dealing with real challenges bearing the fact that they never knew when JAMB exam was going to be taken, when registration was suppose to end and very saline issues that nobody should worry about in an environment when things work according to full information. And by doing you online registration you have been able to avoid that.
She warned that just doing online registration is not going to deal with the education sector challenges. 'We are dealing with the fundamental issue of exam malpractices which in by the way is a branch of the tree of corruption that we have allowed to develop in our nation. What is going on is that while parents are engaging in corruption, their children are engaging in corruption at a lower level. At their level they cannot have access to public treasury but can have access to public space created for education, which should happen through competition. So they want to avoid that competition which is driven by hardwork.
'So this issue of exam malpractice must punish bad behaviour but then if we just tale the deterrent behaviour without looking at the preventive side of it then we will run into trouble. Because already the seed for exam malpractice has been sown and while we are cleaning up that in their minds, we need to get a new system in place. So our online registration will need to go backward and forward, that is a cradle to grave application of the principles of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). I think an ICT-enabled JAMB as an examination administration system would sought our problems out", she said.