Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) is set to conduct the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) tomorrow Wednesday November 8, 2023. According to UNEB Executive Director, Dan Odongo, out of the 749,347 candidates, 2,380 are registered under the Special Needs Education (SNE) arrangement. Odongo says this year’s number is slightly higher compared to last year’s 2,316 SNE […]
Professor Celestino Obua, the Vice Chancellor of Mbarara University of Science and Technology, has been appointed the new Chairperson of the Uganda Examinations Board (UNEB). Professor Obua’s appointment was announced by Education Minister Janet Museveni. He was subsequently sworn in during a Friday afternoon board meeting convened at the UNEB headquarters in Ntinda. During the […]
Ng’abayizi ba P.7 beeteekateeka okukola ebigezo byabwe ebya PLE ebinaatandika nga November 8 biggwe nga November 9, abazadde abatakkiririza mu Katonda baweereddwa amagezi ogukoma ku kusasulira abaana baabwe ebisale by’essomero babawe n’ebikozesebwa ebisigadde bamale babaveeko. Fr. Simon Peter Kabenge bano abawadde gaabuwa nti tebasaanidde kumala biseera mbu ate batwalira abaana baabwe obuti n’ebyawongo ebirala mbu […]
Williams Suuna, the headteacher of Old Kampala Senior Secondary School spent Tuesday night in police custody following his arrest for alleged involvement in examination malpractice. According to information from police sources, Suuna was apprehended alongside Luyima Gilbert, a teacher at Bank Hill College, Zana, and Zuria Kunia Kareem, the Headteacher of Nakaseke Seed School. […]
Buganda Road court has remanded six people including headteachers to Luzira prison over alleged examination malpractice. Among those remanded are; Daniel Oleja, Michael Ijalla, and Nasser Sekandi – all teachers from Wakiso-based schools. They were jointly charged with Tadeo Lukyamuzi, Henry Mirembe, and Emmanuel Oketch, who are headteachers from different primary schools in Kasanda and […]
As the dates for the writing of Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) draw closer, several primary schools in Madi-Okollo district have adopted to a team teaching approach to address the low syllabus coverage. Team teaching, also known as co-teaching or “tag team teaching,” involves two or more teachers conducting a lesson simultaneously, taking turns teaching the […]
The Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams have officially kicked off today with the briefing of candidates. At pre-exams media briefing held at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala on Friday morning, Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) executive director Dan Odongo told reporters that over 360,000 students registered to sit UCE exams this year and […]
Fr. Deogratious Kiibi, the parish priest of Mpigi Parish in Mpigi district has advised school administrators not to condone indisciplined candidates. Fr. Kiibi says that candidates are not in any way different from the rest of the students hence asking them to observe the discipline until their last day in school. He made the remarks […]