The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) plans to confess 825,000 folks with incapacity (PWD) by 2029.
The board is internet hosting training stakeholders and overseas nationals on the Africa Regional Convention on Equal Alternative of Entry to Larger Schooling (ARCEAHED) on September 17 and 18.
Yusuf Sununu, the minister of state for training, spoke on the convention in Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday.
He stated JAMB, on the 67th Nationwide Council on Schooling assembly in December 2023, obtained approval to waive post-UTME for PWDs.
“This initiative, along with the bold goal to enrol 825,000 college students with disabilities cumulatively over the subsequent 5 years, demonstrates our unwavering dedication to realizing equal entry to training,” he stated.
“All tertiary establishments in Nigeria are to supply admissions to all candidates with disabilities who possess minimal admissible scores into the programmes of their alternative after writing UTME.”
At ARCEAHED, stakeholders mentioned rising points on entry to increased training and financial empowerment for PWDs.
Sununu stated it’s the duty of governments, tutorial establishments, the non-public sector, and civil society to make sure that PWDs will not be left behind.
He stated stakeholder interventions should concentrate on three areas, together with the necessity to create inclusive training infrastructure, empower PWDs by means of financial inclusion, and embark on coverage advocacy by means of the implementation of legal guidelines defending PWD rights.
“We’ve to create alternatives between establishments of training, industries, and governments to develop ways in which would take individuals with disabilities from training to employment,” the minister stated.
“The enactment and implementation of legal guidelines to guard the rights of individuals with disabilities guaranteeing they’ve equal entry to training, well being, and employment services are very important.
“Tertiary establishments shouldn’t solely be admitting college students with disabilities.
“They need to be taking absolute care about accessibility of their campuses by means of the addition of obligatory ramps, elevators, assistive applied sciences, and different lodging that will make studying doable and comfy for all.
“Educating aids corresponding to braille, interpreters in signal language, and digital supplies ready for numerous abilities must be supplied.”
The regional convention will host members from African nations together with Ethiopia, Malawi, and Egypt.
