otokx:

Another white elephant project. Is it everyone that knows how to use computer?

kosovo:

This goes to show the Unseriousness of the Nigeria Government!
What a waste of reasoning . . . .

PapaBrowne:

With this, anyone who wants attend university would go and get some computer literacy. If you can log on to the internet, then you have the world at your feet.

Some people had to pay thru their noses before they miraculously finished Secondary school. Where do u want them to "go and get" computer literacy from?

Is the Government planning to equip schools with computers?? Is the Government planning to set up IT centers?

In as much as this might sound like a good idea, it really isnt logical for it to be executed in Nigeria right now
It's simply a case of putting the cart before the horse!!
There are just too many basic things lacking in the Educational sector for this to be even considered
This is a country where we still have students who learn under trees, learn in classrooms without roofs etc.
The Universities are a total mess (@least the one I went to was and still is!).
The quality of education is appalling and rather than concentrate on training teachers and lecturers to improve on it, they are talking of writing Jamb online!
Infact, I dey vex!

And oh, we havent even considered the yahoo boys
Jamb is just waiting to be hacked into!

Some hungry people are just looking for a new way to eat money

Deep Soul:

Big White Elephant Project!
Some people had to pay thru their noses before they miraculously finished Secondary school. Where do u want them to "go and get" computer literacy from?

Is the Government planning to equip schools with computers?? Is the Government planning to set up IT centers?

In as much as this might sound like a good idea, it really isnt logical for it to be executed in Nigeria right now
It's simply a case of putting the cart before the horse!!
There are just too many basic things lacking in the Educational sector for this to be even considered
This is a country where we still have students who learn under trees, learn in classrooms without roofs etc.
The Universities are a total mess (@least the one I went to was and still is!).
The quality of education is appalling and rather than concentrate on training teachers and lecturers to improve on it, they are talking of writing Jamb online!
Infact, I dey vex!

And oh, we havent even considered the yahoo boys
Jamb is just waiting to be hacked into!

Some hungry people are just looking for a new way to eat money

Another white elephant project. Is it everyone that knows how to use computer?

u want to get into the university. . but u dont know how to use a computer?. . .

ok oh. . ndo

oyb:

most posters on nairaland represnt a miniuscle segment of nigerias population that are priviledged or lucky enough to have resources that give them access to computrs and the internet

oyb:

unless you want to toe a new line - tertiary education is not for the poor
anyone who has taken gre will tell you - you MUST practise using a computer based materials.
i took the gre in 2003. i first went through some three of four books, i was acing them, being paper based. i then installed the test simulation software on my pc. i thought it would be the same. it was HARD. i was very tired when i finished. i had to practise for two months before i was ready for computer based testing.
my point - online jamb is a complete paradigm shift that is not suported by nigerias infrastructure

oyb:

it requires that all who take the exam have lacccess to pcs on a regular basis
that we have computer based trainig materials (a non existent nigerian industry)
regular electricty
it will just wind up being another billion naira spend with no results

Pharoh:

I have not seen where citizens of a country are doubting the capability of their government to execute a project like in nigeria.   

texazzpete:

I have not seen anywhere else where an intelligent person will not take past performance into account when attempting to predict the future.

Pharoh:

You can keep the insults to yourself next time Mr texazzpete . . . and past performance means this will also be a failure in your prediction right?

Pharoh:

A good project plan and strategy will this feat pulled off despite all the challenges only if people can keep their head down and think right for a minute.

I am sure if you guys are giving a project like this to execute the next thing you will say is that it can not be pulled off so they can just forget about it.

Pharoh:

Think for once that if you were given these project and how you can go about it then you will see the stupidity in doubting the little effort others are trying to make while you sit behind your laptop to condemn it.

Pharoh:

while you sit behind your laptop to condemn it.

Actually its a desktop

It's a very good indicator that it could be a failure, yes. Even my 5 year old niece could have told you that. Would it really hurt you to inject some realism into your thought processes sometimes?

You forget the third element: Time.
Internet penetration in Nigeria is still quite low. As i said before, If you had done your NYSC in any rural area, this point would not be so difficult for you to comprehend.
Unfortunately, for you unimaginative fellows, when you think of potential JAMB candidates you probably imagine some well coiffured kids in Ikoyi and ikeja. But hundreds of thousands of others are there in remote villages in Nigeria. There are secondary schools in places with minimal electricity, with very[b] little internet exposure[/b] etc.
Even in 'urban' areas, fast and reliable internet connection can be a premium. Huge swathes of Nigeria is covered only by slow EDGE or GPRS cellular data and many others by the often unreliable CDMA/EVDO carriers.

In other words, it's a[b] logistics nightmare[/b] to expect to execute something of this complexity at such short notice.