Utuama, Delta Dep Gov, Challenges Jamb On Integrity

Utuama, Delta Dep Gov, Challenges Jamb On Integrity

DELTA State Deputy Governor, Amos Utuama, a law professor and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has challenged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to protect the integrity of its qualifying examinations into institutions of higher learning in the country.

AkanimoReports quotes Utuama as making this challenge while the Chairman and Registrar of JAMB, Sam Ukpabi and Dibu Ojerinde, both of them professors respectively on a courtesy call in his office on Thursday in Asaba, the state capital.

The deputy governor who is also a one time sub-dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Lagos, observed that at the moment there was no correlation between the performance of students in the qualifying examination and their performances in their various departments.

“I think one way to protect the integrity of the qualifying exams is that there should be some correlation between the performances of students in the qualifying exams and their performances in the various departments,” he said.

He however, commended the initiative of the board, in unifying the qualifying examinations, but reasoned that beyond that measure, efforts must be made to ensure that students’ performance at the examination were true reflections of their academic abilities.

The state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan in his goodwill address to the JAMB coordinators meeting for the 2010 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which held in Asaba, commended the board “for the speedy way in which results of its examination have been released in recent times.

“I want to believe that this innovation (unification) by your board will enhance access to tertiary education by prospective candidates and bring to an end, the disturbing perennial problem of admission, which has adversely affected our children over the years.”

JAMB registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde had in his remarks explained that the unification would enable candidates seeking admission “to universities, monotechnics/polytechnics and or colleges of education (to) sit for the same matriculation.”

This he explained, besides its cost effectiveness, was one sure way of removing the dichotomy that exists between university graduates and their polytechnic counterparts.

Ojerinde informed that the “meeting with the coordinators of the boards examination is intended to assist in mapping out plans and fine-tuning arrangements for the smooth conduct of the 2010 UTME.

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