The minister for education and sports Ms Jessica Alupo has called on the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) to expand on the current staff members of the examinations body in order to match well with the growing number of candidate students and pupils over the years.
The minister says that the expansion of UNEB staff is log over due. She was addressing members of UNEB in Kampala on Thursday.
According to statistics available at the UNEB head offices in Ntinda, Kampala, in 1980, there were 20,157 Senior Four candidates registered to sit O-Level exams but the number has since grown to 267,527 in 2012.
Also over the same period of time, the number of Senior Six candidates rose from 15,023 to 110,637, without a proportionate increase in the UNEB staff. The statistics further show that the number of candidates at Primary level also rose from 156,188 in 1985 to 564,778 in 2012 thus the need to expand UNEB staff.