Ugandan Schools to Re-open, Date for UNEB Exams Set.
All indications are
that a dead year will not be declared, schools will reopen later this month,
and national exams usually set by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB)
in November and December, will go ahead, in March 2021.
According
to a letter recently written by the Minister of Education Janet Kataha Museveni
to Finance Minister Matia Kasaija seeking the release of capitation grants to
schools, the focus will be on candidate classes to resume, for what would be a
second term, on September 20, this year.
Education
authorities have therefore revised the Academic Year schedule to allow students
to report for the ‘second term of school this month’, as part of the phased
reopening of educational institutions across the country.
The Academic
Year was prematurely cut short o...