Tina Amanda
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates can now generate profile codes themselves and save such for use when registration commences.
Jamb Registrar Professor Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this during an interactive session with the Board and Vice Chancellors, Provosts, Rectors, Registrars, Admission Officers and all responsible for implementation of admissions from institutions in South-South in continued intensive training on the CAPS and IBASS, at University of Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
Oloyede noted that from 2023, its further interactions with stakeholders to manage admissions and programmes will be done electronically via her Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) and the Integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS) platforms.
According to him,”From next year we will no longer tolerate papers. It is mandatory from January 1, 2023, that communications on admission curriculum and programmes amendments to the institutions will be done on these platforms.
“We are coming up with digitised platforms whereby we will save time, create archive, and make everything we do properly documented. Presently, every year, we communicate with roughly two million candidates registered with us. Presently, no student writes to us. They communicate with us on the platform.
“This is what we are now extending to the regulatory agencies, to the institutions, that we can deliver services faster, quicker, and more reliably and for record purposes so that nobody can deny what one has put on the platform.
“When we did the training four weeks ago, the institutions felt they needed practical hands-on and that is why we are organizing this. This is going on simultaneously in Abuja, Bauchi, Zaria, Ibadan and Enugu and is going to take place tomorrow (Tuesday) for obvious reasons (Eastern sit-at-home).”
Oloyede, however, explained that before 2017, admission, curriculum and programme management were too manual and tardy that implementing officers needed regular travels to Abuja, risking their lives, while some got robbed by hoodlums who mistook their bags loaded with volumes of documents for money.
“In the past, no institution will not go to Abuja up to four or five times in a year for admissions but now you do not need to because in your office you can conduct admission and interact. This is what we are extending to communication on the programme and amendments of the new programme so that we can communicate smoothly and more meaningfully.
“If we are to wait until we have all the infrastructure, we will wait forever. Infrastructure is improving, we are getting better than what we had in the past, and we will continue to improve. The world is not waiting for us, therefore, we must catch up with the world.
“So if there are internet problems, they should solve them because that will help increase the capacity of our institutions. Institutions can not interact with JAMB effectively without strong internet service and that will force the institution to get a strong network.”
