The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has constituted a special committee, to investigate cases of technology-driven malpractice, detected during this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
Inaugurating the Twenty-three-member Special Committee On Examination Infraction in Abuja, JAMB’s Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, revealed that the results of six thousand, four hundred and fifty-eight candidates were under investigation, for alleged involvement in high-tech cheating.
He explained that malpractice has evolved beyond traditional schemes into “technologically sophisticated forms,” including multiple cases of biometric and identity fraud by some accredited CBT centres and candidates.
Professor Oloyede disclosed that one hundred and forty-one cases of “normal” exam malpractice have been sent to JAMB’s disciplinary committee.
The JAMB Registrar added that the Special committee would handle “extraordinary infractions,” such as image blending, albinism falsification, finger pairing, and attempts to breach some CBT centres’ Local Area Networks.
Writing by Wahre Bello