Kwara State Polytechnic has introduced card readers to authenticate students identity during its examinations.
It is contained in a statement issued on Monday in Ilorin by the institution’s spokesman, Mr Tosho Amuda, at the end of a sensitisation programme on curtailing malpractices by Examination Monitoring Committee.
The statement said that the card reader was a new technology which will help at identifying duly registered students.
Mrs Olubunmi Ajibade stated that, the Chairman of the Monitoring Committee said that, the sensitisation was to educate supervisors and students on the use of the card reader.
According to the statement, the sensitisation is aimed at curtailing any form of inadequacies before, during and after examinations beginning with the first semester.
Ajibade expressed optimism that the implementation of the card reader would be successful during the first semester examination.
She also advised students to coprate with examination rules so as to have hitch free examination.
