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th 0795-3089 27 July, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 17 House, FME, WAEC Resolve To See PMB On School Certificate Examination Date h e H o u s e o f out for the country. Representatives Committee question papers and that other on Basic Education and c o n v o l u t e d l o g i s t i c T One of the options is to find considerations might come Services, the Ministry of adate acceptable and immediate, Education and West African into play. Examination Council (WAEC), Nigeria headquarters, on Thursday in Abuja, took a hard look at options for the conduct of this year's final school certificate examination. The stakeholders, in a meeting convened by the House of Representatives, however, agreed that if they were to make the S e p t e m b e r d a t e f o r t h e examination a reality, there was the need to get President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) involved in coming up with a timely and effective decision. They agreed that in the interest of Mal. Adamu Adamu Femi Gbajabiamila the 1.6 million candidates Hon. Minister of Education registered for the West African Speaker House of Representatives Senior School Certificate as the head of WAEC National Areghan revealed that it took a Examination, there was the need office in Nigeria, Patrick to agree on a date for the regional presidential directive for the Areghan, revealed that it would Gambia to shelved its desire to examination as time is running take quite a while to print in this edition 2020 UTME: Lydia Imoroa Blended Classrooms Admissions Begin Appointed Acting New Path For Varsities August 21 Director, DIM Post-covid-19 — Okebukola Bags Pillar of Africa e-learning Award Pg. 2 Pg. 3 Pg. 4 27th July, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 17 have the examination before now, Education, Honourable Emeka while Ghana also shelved its own across the country. N w a j i u b a , r e m i n d e d earlier scheduled for June. stakeholders that the decisions Areghan said Nigeria needs to In his contribution, Honourable they were to make was for an decide if it wants to give its Nnolim Nnaji wondered why examination date and not candidates what he called a funding should be a problem, resumption of schools in the COVID-19 exam certificate or a country. WAEC certificate in concert with the other countries. The members deliberated on if Nigeria could use its power as “Getting parents to pay another provider of about 60 per cent of set of fees might be difficult if the the finances in WAEC to September date is missed; if the dictate a date of its liking, but November option is considered, the stakeholders present someone has to pick the bills,” he eventually agreed that it is said. better to be democratic in arriving at a decision. The permanent secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny T h e c h a i r m a n o f t h e Echono, said that WAEC was one committee, Honourable Julius of the institutions that espouse Ihonvbere, ruled that the regional cooperation and having committee would approach the a stand-alone examination would state governors via the Nigeria Mal. Adamu Adamu defeat the element of unity it Minister of Education Governors' Forum so as to be portrays. on the same page and get President Muhammadu Buhari He further noted that with pointing out that the Ministry to assist in diplomatic effort to adequate funding, it should not of Humanitarian Affairs spent get other regional countries on take more than a week to get the over N13 billion as palliative for Nigeria's side concerning the examination ready logistically for the COVID-19 pandemic. yet-to-be agreed examination the 19,000 examination centres date. The Minister of State for 2020 UTME: Admissions Begin August 21 The Joint Admissions and National Innovation Diploma Matriculation Board (JAMB), has and the Nigeria Certificate in announced the release of its Education into Full Time, guidelines for 2020 admission Distance Learning, Part Time, process into Tertiary Institutions. Outreach, Sandwich, must be processed only through the The announcement followed the J o i n t A d m i s s i o n s a n d virtual meeting of 2020 JAMB Matriculation Board (JAMB). Policy Meeting on Admission into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria The statement said that held last June. "Institutions which are still involved in advertising or According to the board all selling application forms for applications for admissions to a d m i s s i o n s i n t o t h e Prof. Ishaq Oloyede First Degree, National Diploma, Registrar JAMB programmes listed above MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 02 27th July, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 17 s h o u l d s t o p h e n c e f o r t h . National Innovation Diploma exercise for the 2020/2021 Institutions should advise and the Nigeria Certificate in academic session would be candidates to apply to them Education into Full Time, conducted on CAPS. No through Joint Admissions and Distance Learning Part time, institution is allowed to Matriculation Board (JAMB). Outreach, Sandwich, etc, must publish, announce, exhibit or be processed only through paste any name(s) of admitted The statement also said that JAMB. candidate without prior “duplication of application forms approval of the name on is not allowed Joint Admissions "Institutions that desire to place CAPS.” and Matriculation Board (JAMB) advertisement can do so by and the three regulatory agencies advising candidates who applied “The first and second choices ( N a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t i e s for the current Unified Tertiary admission must be conducted Commission (NUC), National Matriculation Examination for all institutions from August Board for Technical Education (UTME) to change to their 21 2020 to a later date that ( N B T E ) a n d N a t i o n a l institution as first choice rather would be determined by the Commission for Colleges of than requesting the candidates Federal Ministry of Education Education (NCCE) will ensure to purchase another application and communicated to all the that all Tertiary Institutions form or apply. This is to prevent institutions. The uncertainties comply with this policy directive.” the issue of double registration of the COVID-19 make it which is a violation of the JAMB impossible to fix a terminal The guideline reads in part "All mandate.” date. applications for admissions to First Degree, National Diploma, It added that “the admission- Lydia Imoroa Appointed Acting Director DIM Following the retirement of the Division from the University of Acting Director, Inspection and Jos in 1989 and a Master’s Degree Monitoring, Mrs. Agnes Bamgbala, in Public Admin in 2012 from the Management at its Special the University of Abuja. meeting of Tuesday, 14th July 2020 approved the appointment of Mrs. Mrs. Imoroa joined the Lydia T.K. Imoroa as Acting Commission in October 1993 as Director of the Directorate for a Protocol Officer II and became period of six month in the first Deputy Director in January instance. 2014. In the Letter of her appointment the She had served as Deputy management said that the decision D i r e c t o r , P r o g r a m m e was made in recognition of her Monitoring Division, Federal performance, loyalty, commitment Universities Monitoring and high sense of responsibility. Division and Protocol Division, before being moved back to the Mrs. Lydia T.K. Imoroa The new Acting Director, Mrs. Lydia Acting Director, Directorate, Inspection and Directorate of Inspection and Monitoring Imoroa holds Bachelor of Arts in Monitoring as Acting Director. French with Second Class Upper MONDAY BULLETIN | A Publication Of The Office Of The Executive Secretary Page 03 27th July, 2020 Vol. 15 No. 17 Blended Classrooms New Path For Varsities Post-covid-19 — Okebukola Bags Pillar of Africa e-learning Award A Professor of science and blended classrooms as a new unwillingness to change, poor computer education and former normal for schools' survival of internet connectivity, poor Executive Secretary of the post-COVID-19, and that any power supply, high cost of N a t i o n a l U n i v e r s i t i e s institution that fails to develop internet data, among others, Commission (NUC), Peter capacity to work along that those challenges would ease Okebukola has said the only out with time. way for academic institutions, especially at the tertiary' level to He, therefore, asked relevant remain relevant and effective in authorities to come up with a performing their roles after the national plan "On online coronavirus crisis was to embrace courseware development and 'Blended Classrooms' Learning lowering' cost of data, Environment. c a p a c i t y b u i l d i n g programmes and to also He described blended classrooms conduct progress assessment. as the combination of the regular face-to-face classroom lectures On his award, AdasiScience with the virtual/online mode. said Okebukola was selected from among several other Professor Okebukola made the scholars in Africa for the remarks as a keynote speaker at a Prof. Okebukola a w a r d b a s e d o n h i s webinar lecture and award outstanding contributions to c e re m o n y o rg a n i s e d b y direction would be left behind.