The Vice-Chancellor,
University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has appealed to public-spirited
Nigerians to assist indigent candidates to get tablets, as the university gets
set for a non-physical Post-UTME test.
Ogundipe made the appeal during an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
According to him, in the face of the resurgence of Novel
Coronavirus pandemic, all academic activities of the institution, including examinations,
will be online.
”We are to conduct our post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (Post-UTME) test on February 15 to February 23; that is, it will
run for about nine days.
”This examination is going to be e-examination such that wherever
the candidates are, they do not need to come to campus. It is simple and
convenient.
”We looked at the issue of indigent candidates, we then
decided to see how we can carry them along.
“Right now, we have started talking to some friends of the
university and alumni to see how we can get tablets that we can give them.
”We have got the number of these indigent candidates
registered for the Post-UTME test, and they are above 200,” he told NAN.
Ogundipe said that the candidates would need the tablets not
just for the purpose of the post-UTME test but also to facilitate other
e-learning processes.
He said, “We are talking to the alumni president and friends
of the university to get these tablets in order to facilitate e-learning
processes.”
He said that over 50,000 candidates applied for admission
into the university in the 2020/2021 academic session, with about 22,000
scoring 200 marks and above.
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According to him, 21,955 candidates have so far
paid for the conduct of the Post-UTME test.
”It is the first time that we are conducting this type of
examination, and it is such that these candidates must have their laptops with
cameras.
