The high failure rate recorded in 2012 UCE exams has been blamed on commercialization of education.

Democratic Party secretary general Matthias says that most schools no longer put emphasis on academics but rather on money.

He says that due to commercialization even people who should be in charge of supervising these schools have resorted to opening their own schools thus affecting their monitoring role.
He said that government should come up with a policy that bars officials in the ministry of education from acquiring schools and stopping teachers from engaging in part time work.

Yesterday UNEB released the 2012 Uganda Certificate of Education results indicating a slight decline in performance compared to 2011.
Out of 262,987 candidates who sat for the exams 18,826 passed in division one which is 7.2 % compared to 22,630 which is 8.5 in 2011.