JAMB Ready to Commence CBT-Center Accreditation ahead of the 2022 UTME Nationwide
As part of preparations ahead of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has concluded all arrangements to validate and accredit centres to be used for the exam. The final briefing, which was hosted virtually from the Board's National Headquarters, discussed the modalities for the accreditation of centers to be used in conducting the 2022 UTME.
The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who declared the meeting open, began by saying, "The exercise is necessary so as to assess the conduct of the 2021 UTME as well as look at those areas requiring improvement."
Putting the stakeholders through the guidelines and requirements for the accreditation exercise, Director, Information Technology Services (ITS), Mr Fabian Okoro, announced that there would be about six centers across the six geopolitical zones which would be used to test run the new-age technology which the Board is hoping to deploy. The Chief Technical Advisers (CTA) were mandated to ensure that thorough checks on the CCTV installations and other security devices of the various centers are carried out.
Mr Okoro also said, "If centers are not adequately covered, center owners must make provisions to install more cameras as remote monitoring of the examination is non-negotiable."
The Director (ITS), buttressed that all the computer systems must be on a Local Area Network stressing that wireless network would not be accepted by the Board. Other guidelines included the need for all centers to be well-fenced, secured and not in a shared location with any other business outfit, adequate backup systems should be provided, the power supply should be up and active and that every center should have functional air conditioners.
It is expected that the 2022 UTME/DE sales of form should commence after the accreditation exercise.
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