About Us
Welcome to the Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB). The University of Benin JUPEB Foundation School (Unben-JUPEB) is one of the ten original partners of this examination board founded in 2014/15 as an alternate platform for admission into Nigerian Universities and elsewhere. Preparing students seeking to fulfill their academic dreams here at the University of Benin or elsewhere via a one-year intensive post-secondary school Advanced level in any three subject combination is our primary objective. Furthermore, this program caters for young and brilliant under-aged students below sixteen that have completed and met the five credits necessary for admission into the university-as it will provide an additional time to mature personally and academically before entering the mainstream university. Also, if you are a student who have satisfied the prerequisite O/Level qualification for entry into the University of Benin, passed JAMB but cannot make it through the Post-UTME screening process, then JUPEB-Uniben is the right place to be.
Our Vision
To train and continuously supply well prepared students in the basic subjects required to succeed in their respective university programs at the 200 level locally and internationally.
OUR MISSION
To provide an alternate admission route to young and outstanding secondary school leavers seeking direct entry admission into any area of specialisation within the University of Benin or other universities in Nigeria including international partnering universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and United States of America and others.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMM DIRECTOR
Isoken Tito Aighewi is a Professor of Environmental Science, Health and GIS Applications at the Department of Environmental Management and Toxicology, University of Benin, Nigeria.
His educational background include training in Agro-Environmental Sciences (B.S, M.S Tuskegee, Ph.D Minnesota); Environmental Public Health/Safety (MPH, Columbia-New York), and Geographic Information Sciences (GC-GIS, Indiana-Purdue) and several other certificates from Harvard University School of Public Health, Harward University, Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, Environmental Systems Research Institute, California, Savanna River Site National Laboratory, Edmonton University, Canada etc., His extensive experience in teaching, research leadership and public service extends more than 37 years across five universities in the United States of America and Africa (Tuskegee University Alabama, University of Minnesota, Columbia University, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Benedict College USA and University of Benin, Nigeria). Prof. Aighewi has been the Program Director of Uniben’s Joint University Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB) Foundation School since February 2020, a two-time Head of Department, as well as a Graduate Program Coordinator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore USA. He has successfully developed and managed three research laboratories in the United States and has co-managed several external research/training grants in excess of $15.2m (USD) since 2009. He has and continues to provide expert consultancy services to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Education, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Edo State Government, as well as several multi-national companies on demand. Prof. Aighewi has served as Ad-hoc university accreditation panel member to Nigeria’s National University Commission (NUC) on numerous occasions, as well as monitoring, resource verification and accreditation of JUPEB Foundation schools nationwide. He has served as Associate Editor and Reviewer for several scientific, educational and engineering publishing houses and has authored more than sixty articles in journals and textbook chapters with more than 168 citations worldwide; he also coordinated two major international professional conferences. Prof. Aighewi served as a board member of Maryland Information Network for Pesticides and Alternate Substances (MINPAS) in Maryland USA. He currently serves as an Alternate Board member of Nigeria’s JUPEB Statutory Board; a member of JUPEB Directors Board, including member of the Governing Council of American Heritage University of Southern California in the USA. Professor Aighewi served as President of the Association of Environmental Health Academic programs (AEHAP) in the United States in 2013-2014 and also served as the Chairman of Nigerian Environmental Society-Edo State Chapter 2018-2021. Professor Aighewi leads a multidisciplinary research group on Tropical disease control and also conducts multidisciplinary research on ecosystems, environmental and human health and Sanitation, including Geospatial Information Technology (GIS/GPS) applications as a decision tool. Professor Aighewi is an active member of Nigerian Environmental Society (NES), Soil Science Society of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Chattered Institute of Environmental and Public Health Management of Nigeria (FEPHN) and a Fellow of the Institute of Educational Administrators of Nigeria (FSEA).
PROF. ISOKEN TITO AIGHEWI
BSc (Hons), MSc (Tuskegee) Grad-Cert GIS (Indiana-Purdue), MPH (Columbia-New York), PhD (Minnesota). FEPHN, FSEA