The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has informed Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners that it would not tolerate any infractions that would negatively impact its image or that of its examinations. This warning was part of the proceedings of the meeting held on 9th December, 2019, in Abuja, between the Board and centres that were delisted after the 2019 UTME.
According to the JAMB helmsman, the Board would not hesitate to show errant centres the way out if they fail to comply with rules and regulations. He said, “The Board would not allow its name to be dragged in the mud by the inefficiencies of centres operators.”
Continuing, the Registrar said, “We are not here to trade off or subordinate the interest of Nigeria to any other interest. JAMB would not tolerate any infraction, no matter how small. If the tempo of JAMB activities are too high for you, please seek other areas of engagement. There are so many things people can do outside partnering with JAMB.
The Board does not delist centres until it is clearly established that such centres have breached the ethics of the examination. At the meeting with the delisted centres where their levels of involvements were revealed to them, the centres accepted their culpabilities and pleaded for mercy.
The invited centres were summoned to the meeting so as to be shown their level of culpabilities and to hear their own side of the story regarding issues ranging from registration infractions, which is viewed as the foundation for malpractices, centres with technical deficiencies, those with reduced capacity and school-based CBT centres.
Others invited to the meeting included centres with multiple fingerprint violations and those that threatened examination officials, among others.
The Registrar, in his concluding remarks, urged centre owners to ensure full compliance with rules and regulations in their dealings with the Board. He intimated them that there will be no hiding place for any wrongdoer. According to him, perpetrators of examination misconduct would not go unpunished as the Board had state-of-the-art technology at its disposal to detect any infractions committed before, during and after the UTME. He enjoined the centres to be of good behaviour in the Board’s examinations or be disengaged completely.
The centres with technical challenges, in their response, promised to be above board in subsequent examinations if pardoned. They informed the Registrar of the ongoing arrangements in their respective centres to fix their facilities in readiness for the 2020 Registration and Examination.
Credit: JAMB Bulletin
