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PLE: Boys outperformed girls last year

Ugasite Jan 27, 2023

PLE was conducted on November 8th and 9th, 2022, with a total of 832,810 candidates registered from 14,153 examination centers. 51.9 percent of the total registered candidates were females and 48.1 percent were males. 583,769 were funded under the Universal Primary Education-UPE program, and 249,041 were non-UPE candidates.

Education

PLE to be released on Friday – says UNEB

Ugasite Jan 25, 2023

The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has announced the 2022 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) will be released this Friday 27th January, 2023 at 11:00am.

Education

UNEB: Four remanded for exam malpractice

Ugasite Jan 20, 2023

"They have been charged with aiding and abetting examination malpractice, contrary to Section 36 of the UNEB Act 2021. They are also charged with another account of examination material/ information contrary to section 25 of the UNEB Act."

Education

Parliament directs MoE to regulate school fees increment

Ugasite Jan 17, 2023

"Any such school fees increment will be in total disregard of the prevailing socio-economic realities. As such, I call upon gov't to prudently exercise its regulatory role in ensuring that no such arbitrary school fees increments are effected," she added.

Education

King’s College Budo fires teacher for Sodomizing students

Ugasite Jan 17, 2023

"Whereas we registered a sodomy complaint by the said student and had erroneously suspended him, we later conducted thorough investigations and established more facts. Accordingly, an apology was conveyed to the parent, with regret."

Education

UNEB to conduct nationwide learners’ registration in secondary schools

Ugasite Jan 17, 2023

"UNEB will communicate to schools on the modalities of submitting the CA scores and the body will also uniquely identify learners during the process of CA , necessitating learners' NINs," Waiswa said schools without UNEB CA centres numbers will be required to apply for them accordingly.

Education

Parliament seeks answers on student’s loan scheme funding

Ugasite Nov 25, 2022

“We need to help these students and that is why we are here. We are the voice of the voiceless so we should speak for them. We should make sure they do exams and we will expect a report on this matter,” Among said.

Education

2023 academic calendar year to begin on 6th February – MoE

Ugasite Nov 17, 2022

Dates for senior one and five entrants for Technical or Farm Schools and Community Polytechnics will also be communicated in due course according to the Education Minister, Janet Museveni.

Education

P7 pupils who missed PLE exam to be given special paper – Janet Museveni

Ugasite Nov 17, 2022

The P7 candidates of St. Christine Primary School in Kakumiro district reportedly walked for about 15km in the company of their teachers to Mpasana Primary School, where they had registered to sit for their exams, after their headmaster failed to provide a van he had promised and allegedly switched off his phone.

Education

Teachers demand P8 be introduced in primary level learning

Ugasite Nov 15, 2022

“Some learners have been called failures because they can not pass examinable subjects but they are very good in co-curricular activities. So by the time these learners leave P.8, they can do better in these areas of interest."