“The scripts have now been passed on to UNEB for marking,” Kalule said, reassuring parents and candidates that the scripts would be marked expeditiously and the candidates graded in time for selection and placement exercise. It was a sigh of relief for 34 candidates of Bamure Primary School in Koboko district when the Uganda National […]
He said his son has broken the PLE record of aggregate 6 and 7 set earlier by his siblings, when he came out with aggregate 4. Naggalama Junior School in Mukono District has once again excelled in the 2025 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), with all 52 candidates scoring first grades. This achievement marks the school’s […]
The inmates’ hard work and dedication were praised by their teachers, who noted that the educational program at the facility plays a vital role in building skills and hope for better lives after release. In a remarkable display of determination and resilience, inmates at Mbale Main Prison have defied the odds to achieve impressive results […]
UNEB believes this move would reduce incentives for malpractice, refocus education on genuine learning, and restore credibility to primary school certification. The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has proposed abolishing the aggregate-based grading system for the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), citing it as a major driver of examination malpractice. UNEB Chairperson, Prof. Celestino Obua made […]
The performance of candidates varied across subjects, with English showing improvement yet Social Studies and Religious Education (SST) experienced a decline. The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has released the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results for 2025, with a total of 817,883 candidates from 15,388 examination centres registering for the exams. This represents a 2.6% […]
Ndisaba decried crafty school managers who feed parents and the public with wrongful and misleading UNEB results with the aim of luring more learners to their schools. MP Kimosho Pushes for 7-Year Term for President, MPs, Cites ‘Healing’ Time After Elections As the parents are eagerly waiting to receive their children’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) […]
Of the 818,010 candidates who sat for PLE last year, 428,398 are girls, and 389,589 are boys. Last year, the 2024 PLE results were officially released on January 23, a week earlier than the ones of 2025. The long-awaited release of the results of last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) has been set for Friday. […]
This crackdown comes as part of UNEB’s ongoing efforts to curb examination malpractice and uphold the credibility of national assessments. A total of 30 suspects, including five headteachers and a District Inspector of Schools, appeared before the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Mengo on Tuesday and charged with aiding and abetting examination malpractice during the 2025 […]
Acting on an intelligence tip off by the Chief Invigilator overseeing the centre Ambrose Masiko, police got into action and arrested the suspect as he was still writing the examinations. A student of the Luweero campus of Kampala University has been arrested by Rukungiri Police for sitting a UNEB ‘A level’ examination paper for another […]
And in Rakai district, Katende Noah was arrested at St. Raphael Mbuye Primary School for impersonation, where he falsely presented himself as a UNEB scout which he was not. A release by Greater Masaka police spokesperson Twaha Kasirye has reported that this year’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in the region were marred by many cases […]