The Ugandan Government has embarked on an initiative to curb the moral decay among her citizens through ethical studies. According to the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), an ethics subject will be taught on a national level and an individual value assessment tool shall be developed. NCDC also adds that two certificate; academic and moral […]
The Nakifuma County Member of Parliament Eng. Robert Sekitooleko has threatened to sue the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Secretary General Mathew Bukenya over miss communication about his qualifications. Previously, Sekitooleko was disqualified from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries over lack of academic qualifications. He says that Bukenya never bothered to call and find out his views about the missing […]
The Minister of Education and Sports, Namirembe Bitamazire has appealed for all stakeholders to improve learning of science subjects at all levels of education. Bitamazire says the doing and passing of science subjects by many students is critical for the development of the country as science spurs development. She was speaking Wednesday as […]
The Uganda National Examinations Board has released the 2010 Uganda Certificate of Education senior four examinations results showing more students managed to pass the exams although there was a decline in performance from 99.5% in 2009 compared to 93.5% in 2010. The results released by UNEB Executive Secretary Mathew Bukenya show that 243,305 students (80%) […]
The Uganda National Examinations Board has released the 2010 Primary Leaving Examinations showing improved performance compared to 2009. UNEB Secretary, Mathew Bukenya says 512, 057 primary seven candidates sat for the 2010 Primary leaving examinations in 10,906 centers across the country. He says unlike in 2009, boys performed better than girls in the 2010 PLE examinations. […]
In a study carried out by the Inspectorate of Government on the effectiveness of measures instituted by the Uganda National Examination Board, external assistance has bee spotted to be the biggest cause of examination malpractices accounting for about 10% of examination malpractices. The study established that various forms of examination malpractices occur before, during and […]
The Inspector General of Government has appealed to Parliament to amend the Uganda National Examination Board Act claiming it curtails on the powers that UNEB has to punish culprits of examination malpractices and thus causing UNEB’s efforts to fight examination malpractices futile. The IGG Raphael Baku has told journalists at Parliament that the UNEB Act […]
The Inspectorate of Government has recommended to the Uganda National Examination Board to install CCTV Camera’s as way of cutting down the levels of malpractices in national exams at Primary Leaving Exams, Uganda Certificate of Education and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education. This comes hardly three months ahead of the annual national examinations that will […]