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WHEN the Kogi
State University, Anyigba,
recently announced that this
year’s post Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME)
was going to be online, parents,
guardians and students were
jolted with the innovation.
The Graphic which was inundated
with phone calls regarding the
issue went to town to feel the
pulse of stakeholders.
Professor Theophilus Femi
Balogun of National Open
University of Nigeria (NOUN),
Lokoja allayed the fear being
expressed by people outside the
university system, describing
online examination as the best,
because it is easier and faster
as students will be able to know
their results in a short time.
He said, because of the
advantage of the system,
universities all over the world
are now adopting the system both
for their in-house students and
students seeking admission into
a university.
Professor Balogun who recounted
the experience of NOUN students
recently, pointed out, “They
thought the system would be
difficult but they found out
that the contrary was the case”.
He explained that the issue of
power interruption was
adequately taken care of with
the use of their stand-by
electricity generating engine,
which was put on shortly before
every examination. “Students
here are satisfied with the
system because they are getting
the desired result from it,” he
remarked.
Also speaking in the same vein,
the Public Relations Officer
(PRO) of Kogi State University,
Anyigba, Mr. Joshua Edogbo who
answered our reporter’s
questions on telephone,
contended that the online post
UTME would curb instances of
examination malpractices.
He stressed that it would be
easy to administer, especially
in terms of marking and
compilation of results, saying
that the marking would also be
done online.
He explained that the fear of
candidates from rural schools
who may never have had exposure
to the computer w |