The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed plans to scrape out diagrams, illustrations, and maps in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), for visually impaired candidates.
News About Nigeria reports that JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this during a virtual meeting with the Honourable Commissioner for Education in Abuja.
The Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who made this information available to the public on Monday in the institution’s weekly bulletin, stated that subsequent tests for blind candidates will be devoid of visual questions.
He maintained that the registrar is committed to ensuring that diagrams, illustrations, and maps are excluded from questions for blind candidates from the 2024 UTME, with such questions having the same difficulty indices as other test items
Oloyede further noted that the Board was aware of the concerns raised by other candidates with other forms of disabilities other than the blind and deaf in the registration and conduct of the UTME, stating that the Board will look into it.
He assured the people that provisions would be made to ensure that all candidates with disabilities are not disadvantaged on account of their situation, adding that the development was in line with the resolutions taken at the just-concluded conference titled: “National Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria.”
The conference, which was organised by the JAMB-Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG), is, according to Oloyede, in charge of coordinating all matters relating to candidates with disabilities and will, according to him, ensure that the fears of Nigerians concerning other forms of disabled candidates are laid to rest.
