By Felix Khanoba
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday organised a training programme for universities’ vice chancellors, polytechnics’ rectors, education colleges’ rectors and administrative staff on the newly introduced Interactive e-Brochure and e-Syllabus System (IBASS).
The AUTHORITY reports that the new system, allows automated and real time communications between JAMB, tertiary institutions and relevant education agencies in areas of admissions quota, programme accreditation, among others,
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who declared the North Central Zonal workshop opened through a virtual conference at the College of Education, Federal Capital Territory, Zuba, Abuja, assured that correspondence between the exam body and institutions would be individualised, which meant that such communication would not be open to third parties.
The training which held at the six geo-political zones of the country, simultaneously had most of the Vice Chancellors, Provosts, Rectors and other administrative staff of tertiary institutions in attendance.
Recall that JAMB had recently announced full automation of its administration and other communication processes to all its stakeholders as a means of communication delay and bureaucratic bottlenecks.
The new policy is expected to begin from January, 2023 as JAMB would refrain from receiving any physical letter from any institution or agency except through its Interactive e-Brochure and e-Syllabus System (IBASS), Oloyede said.
Welcoming participants to the North Central workshop, Dr Sule Mundi, Provost, College of Education, Zuba, lauded JAMB for innovations in its test system.
He said the new initiative would go a long way in further strengthening education in the country.
“Oloyede is really a reformer in JAMB, as he has put every system in place to reduce to the barest minimum hardened corruption and ineptitude in the examination body.
“I have no doubt that your impressive turn-out by the show of attendance and intention for participation at this training is a testimony of your appreciation of the invaluable role of JAMB in continuously finding ways to improve methods of identifying and placing suitably qualified candidates in the available places in all our schools.
“This meeting and training is intended to brainstorm on interactive e-Brochure and e-Syllabus System otherwise refer to as the Interactive Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS). We therefore wish to welcome our distinguished facilitators who will be leading us and getting us familiar with this groundbreaking process of automation of curriculum, accreditation, admission, and general administration matters between the Board, tertiary institutions and their regulatory agencies.
“It is my deep conviction that the understanding of this training will ensure seamless communication between JAMB, institutions and their regulatory agencies in addition to providing candidates with the various admission requirements needed from them from their prospective tertiary institutions,”Dr Sule Mundi, Provost, College of Education, Zuba stated.
Besides the COE, Zuba for the North Central; the meeting also held simultaneously in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for the North-West; Federal Polytechnic Bauchi for the North-East as well as University of Ibadan for the South-West.
Others are University of Port-Harcourt for the South-South region and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for South-East zone .
