Persons Living With Disabilities wishing to sit for the 2024/2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination can now register at no cost.
Registrar, of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this while rolling out the registration process for interested candidates across the country.
The registration for the 2024 matriculation examination has commenced with Professor Oloyede confirming that JAMB will issue free application documents to all categories of Persons Living With Disability as a form of support.
“To support the PLWD, JAMB will issue free application documents to all categories of Persons Living with Disabilities in the advertisement for the 2024 UTME/DE,” he said.
Oloyede also disclosed that measures have been put in place to ensure a smooth exercise for all candidates, and that audio books will now be provided for all blind candidates.
The registrar explained that the Audio books were a digital adaptation of the traditional reading book, which will come in popular audio formats such as MP3, WMV, and WMA and will be compatible with all devices that can stream audio records.
He said the suggestion for the provision of audiobooks was made at the first National Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria.
Apart from the blind candidates, other groups to benefit from the free registration according to the examination body are people with Down syndrome, Autism, Dyslexia disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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