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 […]
The angry learners together with their parents told the security personnel that they cleared the school fees and the UNEB registration dues but the money was diverted by the school administrators. Students of Cream Field Vocational Senior Secondary School located in Nakifuma-Naggalama Town Council, Mukono district have today turned rowdy and destroyed school property after […]
Kizito said their school does not host a UNEB examination centre, so students were expected to sit the exams at Nakifuma Modern Secondary School. Students from Cream Field Vocational Senior Secondary School in Nakifuma, Mukono district, were thrown into panic after discovering hours before the 2025 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams that they had […]
Without divulging details, he said UNEB dispatched team of its spies to look around for such incidents, and linked their team to security agencies to contain the malpractice. UNEB Appeals to Arts Teachers to Hold Strike in Interest of S4 UNEB Exams Four fraudsters including a teacher have been netter for involvement in a plan […]