Education

Last week, the Uganda National Examinations Board released PLE results for the year 2022 where 832,654 sat for the exams. Whereas the population is excited about the performance of their children, there is a latent issue that we all seem to have swept under the carpet which in my view needs urgent attention. According to Uganda Bureau of Statistics (2021), the enrolment in primary one in the year 2016, stood at 1,888,847 pupils. It is this class that is expected to have sat PLE last year 2022 and that implies that over one million pupils who joined Primary One didn’t seat for PLE last year. In 2015, 1,842,006 joined Primary one and by the time they reached Primary Seven in 2021, only 749,761 pupils sat for PLE exams meaning that still over a million pupils who had joined Primary one in 201...

The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) boss has revealed that the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) will be released next week as schools countrywide prepare to open for the new academic year 2023. While appearing before the Parliamentary Education Committee , the executive director of UNEB, Mr Daniel Odongo, said marking of PLE and the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams ended before Christmas. “The PLE exams were marked at 13 centers by 5,544 examiners. Marking of UCE examinations has also ended,” Mr. Odongo said. We are finalizing a few things at the headquarters in Ntinda, Kampala, before we start releasing them consecutively,” he added. The team was appearing before Parliament to defend their budget framework paper for the Financial Year 2023/2024. A total of 832,839 c...

Makerere University administration has suspended the late registration fee penalty to students. Previously, students who failed to register with the university within the first two weeks of the semester were required to pay a fine of Shs50,000 for late registration. However, the university guild president, Lawrence Alionzi recently, wrote to the university administration, asking for waiving of the surcharge. Alionzi had cited economic hardships parents and guardians were facing especially in the aftermath of Covid-19 lockdown, as one of the reasons the Shs50,000 fine ought to be waived. Now, in a letter dated January 9, 2023, the university Vice Chancellor, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe has approved the guild’s request to lift the surcharge. “This is to confirm that your request to waive the surc...