The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board has revealed that Persons Living with Disability who are interested in sitting for the 2024/2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination can register for free.
The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, made this known while rolling out the registration process for interested candidates across the country.
Announcing that registration for the 2024 matriculation examination will begin on Monday, 15(today) January 2024, Oloyede stated that JAMB will issue application documents at no cost to all categories of Persons Living With Disability as a form of support.
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“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 maintained.
The JAMB Registrar who disclosed that measures have been put in place to ensure a smooth exercise for all candidates, added that audio books will now be provided for all blind candidates.
Oloyede who said that the development was a digital adaptation of the traditional reading book, noted that it will come in popular audio formats such as MP3, WMV, and WMA which will be compatible with all devices that can stream audio records.
He stated that the suggestion for the provision of audiobooks was made at the first National Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria.
The JAMB boss also said that 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.
