Senior six examination results have been released in Kampala by education minister, Jesicca Alupo. According to the results, arts students have performed better than their science counterparts. But this is not good for a country with many redundant and jobless ‘artists’. What happened to the government policy of promoting sciences? Is it not working?

The Secretary of Uganda National Examination Board says that the performance in last year’s Ugandan Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) improved slightly with 99.3% of the candidates qualified for the UACE award compared to 99.2 per cent in 2011.

The best done subjects were History, Entrepreneurship, Geography, Literature, Chemistry and Biology. The candidates performed very poor in divinity, Islam, Math, Physics, economics and Agriculture.

The total number of S6 students who sat the exams was 111,456 compared to 103,760 candidates in 2011.

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