Tag Archives: PLE

BRIDGE: The school’s best performing PLE pupils were from the eastern part of the country Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  In its pioneer year of Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), Bridge International Academies registered a notable performance where 93% of its pupils passed in Grade 1 and Grade 2. In …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Education and Sports Minister Janet Museveni has today released results from the Primary Leaving Examinations of 2017. Janet Museveni said she was happy to see that yet again more girls had taken the Primary Leaving Exams, but was critical of continue malpractices. “I condemn …

Municipality hails ‘top up innovation’ as its secret Richard Alituha, the Fort Portal Principal Education Officer has been attending schools’ thanks giving parties one after another ever since the 2016 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results were released on Jan.12. His town of under 55,000 people located in Southwestern Uganda, about …

Fort Portal Municipal Council in western Uganda had the highest percentage number of pupils passing the 2016 Primary Leaving Results (PLE) released today. Fort Portal Municipal Council had a 99.9% pass rate, followed by Entebbe 99.3%,  Ntungamo 99.2% and Rukungiri 91%. Others in the top 10 districts include Jinja Municipal …

By Ronald Musoke When the results of the 2013 Primary Leaving Exams were released on Jan.31, Moses Edibu, a 13-year old pupil of VH Public School in Lira Municipality was devastated. He had hoped to score aggregate 4; the highest grade, but instead scored 5. He spent the whole day …

By Ronald Musoke There was a collective sigh of relief inside the conference hall at Statistics House as the Minister of Education and Sports, Jessica Rose Alupo Epel finally announced the release of Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) for 2013. Relief, because, it was on the final day of January, which …

By Miriam Mukama & Pearl Natamba Should government apologise to pupils that fail? By 5:30 am, a typical pupil in a school in Kampala is up for the uphill task to score aggregate four or any single digit result in first division of the Primary Leaving Exams. Parents, teachers, and the …

By Miriam Mukama The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the Primary Leaving Examination results on Jan. 21 at the statistics house offices in Kampala. The results were received by Jessica Alupo the Minister of Education and Sports from Matthew Bukenya the executive secretary UNEB who said boys performed better …

By Joan Akello About 560,000 pupils will sit this year for their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). They started with Mathematics this morning and social studies and religious education in the afternoon. Tomorrow, they will have science and end with English in the afternoon. The National Examinations Board (UNEB) released tight …

By Rukiya Makuma and Miriam Mukama Why Busoga, Gulu children fail and Masaka, Fort Portal excel Over the years, the eastern and northern regions have always performed poorly at the first major evaluation of a Ugandan child’s education cycle, the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). Over the same period, central and …