A total of 364 blind candidates are to sit the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 11 centres across the nation.
The the special
examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for
visually-impaired candidates will hold between
April 27 and 29, 2023 under the supervision of the JAMB Equal
Opportunity Group.
The chairman, JAMB Equal Opportunity Group, Prof Peter
Okebukola, who made this known while providing the highlight of 2023
examination on Thursday in Abuja, commended the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq
Oloyede, for the special arrangement for this category of Nigerians, saying the
goal of the Oloyede-led JAMB was to ensure that no eligible Nigerian is
prevented from taking the UTME, regardless of disability.
He disclosed that from 2017, JEOG had processed about
2,600 visually-impaired candidates for
the UTME with over a third admitted to courses of their choice in higher
education institutions in Nigeria, mainly universities, adding that the
initiative had been cited in the last four years in several countries, as a
good model for Africa.
The former Executive Secretary of National Universities
Commission explained that the mode of examination administration was blended
use of Personal Computers and the
traditional Braille slate and stylus/typewriters in writing answers to
questions that are read out by a subject expert, stressing that the blind
candidates take the same test items as those who are not blind.
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