By Amos Aar
THE BENUE State House of Assembly has given the go ahead to the centralised Computer-Based Test (CBT) in Makurdi, the state capital, as part of the process for the planned recruitment of primary school teachers.
The Assembly had on Wednesday directed the chairman of SUBEB, Dr Grace Adagba, to immediately decentralise the CBT to all local government areas in order to save cost for applicants, taking into consideration the hardship occasioned by the hike of fuel.
But on Thursday, the House redirected the board to go ahead and centralise the recruitment examination in Makurdi, following a satisfactory explanation given by the SUBEB chairman according to the assembly’s majority leader, Hon. Saater Tiseer, who conveyed the position of the board during a press briefing at the Assembly complex.
Tiseer said the House met with the leadership of the board after its Wednesday’s resolution for decentralisation and the SUBEB chairman explained that if the CBT is centralised in the state capital, the board will be able to access national and international interventions.
Other benefits of the centralised test, according to the chairman, will be to ensure transparency in the recruitment exercise as scores of applicants will be displayed at the end of the test and the need for the employer, SUBEB, to have control of its server as it is done in the police academy and university aptitude test among other benefits.
The SUBEB chairman, Dr Grace Adagba, reportedly appreciated the Assembly for rescinding its earlier resolution and allowing the board to centralize the CBT in Makurdi to achieve the benefits.
