JAMB to go paperless in correspondence with stakeholders –Registrar
By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu
Abuja
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said the board woud no longer use papers in its communication with institutions, and regulatory agencies in the education sector, namely the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and other critical stakeholders, “to achieve real-time and a more effective information dissemination system”.
In a statement made available to Blueprint Monday by JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, Oloyede said,
“The paperless regime being championed by the board would enhance efficiency, prompt service delivery and eliminate all incidence of records mutilation or distortion.”
Dr Benjamin said Oloyede had announced the board’s plans to go competely paperless from January, 2023, to media representatives at a press conference held in Lagos on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
To achieve this, the registrar disclosed that the board has upgraded its integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (BASS) to also serve as a communication platform so as to interface with critical stakehoders in a more efficient and faster manner.
The platform, he stated, is in addition to the one already implemented, in-built
communication platform domiciled in the Central Admissions Processing
System (CAPS), which the board employs as a communication channel between JAMB, the institutions and the candidates as well as to transmit, track, record and archive communication on admission related matters.
“To appraise stakeholders of the operations of these communication channels through a user-training for the officials of JAMB, NUC, NCCE and NBTE as well as secure their support, the Board has scheduled a hybrid meeting of the egulatory agencies and all Heads of tertiary institutions in the country for Monday, November 14, 2022.
“All higher institutions in the Northern states, including FCT, are to attend virtually in the morning while their counterparts from the southern states wil be attending in the afternoon.”
The representatives of NUC, JAMB, NCCE and NBTE are expected to attend the two sessions, with the hope that the meeting would also come up with useful suggestions as to how the new communication regime would be seamlessly implemented.
Similarly, Oloyede hinted that the board is also considering the adoption of an e-wallet payment platform for candidates to use while paying for its services.
“Besides all other advantages the e-wallet would eliminate the commission being charged candidates when they pay for services.”