…to commence sale of UTME, DE application documents soon
By Tom Chiahemen (ABUJA) –
To match words with action, the Management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in the outgoing week inspected some prospective centres to be used for the Board’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Berlin, Germany, beginning from the 2022 UTME.
According to the latest edition of JAMBulletin, the centre inspection, which was undertaken by a three-man technical team from the Board’s National Headquarters, was to further the stated goal of the Federal Ministry of Education that the nation’s tertiary institutions should be exposed to candidates globally.
The team, which was led by the Director, Information Technology Services, Mr Fabian Okoro, had paid a courtesy visit to the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin where they met with the Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, His Excellency, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tugar, the Deputy Head of Mission, Her Excellency, Ambassador (Mrs.) Ingekim Regina Ocheni and other functionaries of the Mission.
Mr Okoro, after briefing Ambassador Tugar on the purpose of the visit solicited the support of the Embassy in sensitising Nigerians in Germany to the highly improved quality of Nigerian tertiary institutions.
Ambassador Tugar, while responding, commended the Board for the many good news emanating from it, particularly the series of innovations that have transformed the large-scale assessment landscape in the country for good.
According to the Ambassador, the establishment of a UTME centre in Germany, where he said over 7 million Nigerians reside, would facilitate the return of many of their wards home for further studies. He said, “The two-tier system of progression into tertiary institutions in Germany has made it difficult for many Nigerians to attain their educational goals.”
Continuing, he said, “Since Germany is the centre of Europe, having a centre in Berlin would place our education system within the reach of a global audience.”
Aligning himself with the internationalization drive of the Board, he said Nigerians are creative and imaginative as Nigeria has produced global leaders in many fields of human endeavours.
The Deputy Head of Mission, Ambassador (Mrs.) Ocheni, who guided the team on the inspection of the prospective centres also commended the Board’s courage in taking the difficult but right step of the centre assessment and urged the Management of the Board to ensure that its noble undertakings are not abandoned by successive administrations.
Other members of the team were: Mrs Susan Theophilus, Assistant Director, Registrar’s Office and Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Public Affairs and Protocols.
Meanwhile, the Board will soon commence the sale of application documents/ registration for the 2022 UTME and Direct Entry (DE).
As gathered, the Board is at the moment engaging its core functionaries in a series of intensive training exercises to ensure that once the date is announced, the stage would have been set for yet another hitch-free exercise.
The release of this information is in line with the Board’s firm determination to ensure that candidates who are desirous of enrolling are ready and prepared. Similarly, it is expected to serve as a wakeup call so that all who may want to register would have gone to first obtain their National Identification Number (NIN), a major prerequisite for the UTME registration.
For those who may want to obtain any of the two application documents, they are advised to get their NIN, familiarise themselves with the Board’s Integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS), which would give them an idea of the course requirements and the syllabus they are expected to cover for the examination. IBASS is on the Board’s website and is downloadable on Google Playstore and other similar platforms.
The next step is for the candidate to create his/her profile by sending the NIN to 55019 to create a profile for registration.
The Board has put adequate measures in place not only to checkmate those who may want to cheat but also strengthened all administrative procedures for the smooth prosecution of any candidate, centre or even staff of the Board found to have been involved in any infraction starting from the registration exercise.