Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Busia district have arrested two college administrators for blocking their own students, numbering 29, from sitting for final exams. The suspects have been identified as Affan Lubanga, the director Destiny River Primary Teacher’s collage-PTC which is in Iganga district and Benson Kabusira the …
Read More »Caution against exam malpractice dominates UACE briefing
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Headteachers have cautioned senior six candidates not to get involved in any form of examination malpractice. At some of the schools where URN reporters attended briefing sessions, candidates were cautioned to avoid being tempted to buy examination papers. Rogers Kimbugwe, the headteacher of Comprehensive …
Read More »PLE: Rain, rain, go away
Heavy rains disrupt start of PLE, late start expected in many places Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Heavy rains have this morning disrupted the start of the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE in different parts of the country. At many examination storage centres, there were no teachers to receive the materials. …
Read More »PLE: P7 candidates urged not to change diet, eat what they are used to
P7 candidates in Kampala to remain home on exams eve, on Monday Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Schools within Kampala have told Primary Seven candidates to remain home on Monday in preparation for the national examination which will start on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The schools held a briefing …
Read More »Schools struggling to complete syllabus weeks to exams
📌 UNEB EXAMS TIMETABLE ✳ Feb 26 ▶ UCE Briefing ✳ March 1- April 6 ▶ UCE exams ✳ March 26 ▶ PLE briefing ✳ March 30-31 ▶ PLE exams ✳ April 9 ▶ UACE briefing ✳ April 12- May 3 ▶ UACE exams 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE …
Read More »BACK TO SCHOOL: P1 return June 7, Senior 1 on April 12
📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P4 & P5 – April 6 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – March 1 ▶ S1 – April 12 ▶ S2 – May 31 ▶ Tech schools/Post Primary institutions – March ▶ Universities – March …
Read More »Makerere pre-entry exams to go ahead, set for October 3
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Makerere University has set October 3rd, 2020 for the Bachelor of Laws degree pre-entry exams for applicants for the 2020/2021 academic year. Alfred Masikye Namoah, the Makerere University Academic Registrar, says the exams will be administered in compliance with the Covid-19 preventive measures. “The examination …
Read More »UACE: UNEB withholds results of 120 candidates
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB has withheld Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations –UACE results of 120 candidates from 26 centers for alleged malpractice. The UNEB Executive Secretary, Dan Nokrach Odongo disclosed this while releasing the UACE results at the Office of the Prime Minister Thursday …
Read More »UCE SPECIAL: Summary of results, comparisons, top subjects
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The highs and lows of the 2019 Uganda Certificate of Examination results show that the number of registered candidates increased by 0.7%, performance was better than that of 2018, with 92.2% candidates passing compared to 87.2%, but nearly half of the students who sat failed physics and chemistry papers. …
Read More »UCE: Half of the candidates fail physics and chemistry
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly half of the students who sat for the Uganda Certificate of Education- UCE exams failed Physics and Chemistry papers. Results released this morning by the Uganda National Examinations Board indicate that at least 166,530, out of the 333,060 students who sat for the …
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