The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says 364 visually impaired candidates will sit for the 2023 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) in 11 centres across Nigeria. Peter Okebukola, chairman,
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says 364 visually impaired candidates will sit for the 2023 unified tertiary matriculation examination in 11 centres across Nigeria.
Okebukola commended Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, for the special arrangement for this class of Nigerians. He said that a pilot study would be conducted later this year to test this mode while also providing options to candidates who opted for full braille, full CBT, and full read-aloud modes. “In 2019, of the 390 candidates, a total of 175 were given admissions. This was unprecedented in the history of admission of such a category of students into the Nigerian higher education system.“In 2021, a total of 110 blind candidates were given admissions, out of the 332 that sat for the UTME.“This 33 percent admission of blind candidates to higher education in an annual cohort is unprecedented in the African higher education system,” he said.
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