🔵 January 27 🔵 State House Nakasero 🔵 11am Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The long-awaited 2022 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) results will be out on Friday this week, the Ministry of Education and Sports has confirmed. Last week, Daniel Odongo, the Executive Director of the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) …
Read More »UNEB needs clear policy on candidates who miss exams for no fault of their own
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Few people have felt the personal pain of missing a national examination like I did in November, 1973. I was blocked from sitting the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) due to a disagreement between my parents and the headteacher of the then Nyondo Boys’ Demonstration School …
Read More »PLE: Three charged over examination malpractice
Butambala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three people including a teacher have been charged for allegedly damaging Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE material in Kibibi town council, Butambala district. Nelson Mbayo, a teacher and resident of Namasuba-Kikajjo in Makidye division, was arraigned before the Magistrates Court in Butambala on Wednesday. He was charged …
Read More »20 inmates sit for PLE in Moroto
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 20 inmates in Moroto prisons have sat for the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE. The inmates sat for the exams at Nakapelimen primary school, 500 meters away from the prisons. Frank Baine, the spokesperson for Uganda Prison Services said that they paid the registration fees of the …
Read More »33 pupils miss PLE in Mbale city
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 30 candidates from Namatala Primary school in Mbale city have failed to show up for the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE. The head Teacher, Edith Musundi, says that only 155 out of the 188 candidates registered showed up for the exams. She explains that some …
Read More »P7 candidate gives birth during PLE
Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 17-year-old girl in Serere district on Tuesday gave birth during the Primary Leaving Exams-PLE. The candidate from Kyere primary school, whose identity has been withheld because she is a minor was in the middle of her mathematics exam when her labour pains started. Herbert …
Read More »KAKUMIRO: UNEB scout evacuated after presenting Ebola symptoms
Kakumiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A UNEB scout has been evacuated from Kakumiro district to Mubende hospital after presenting with Ebola-like symptoms. The scout had been deployed at Kings Way Primary school in Igayaza town council, to monitor the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE, which started Tuesday morning. The scout whose particulars …
Read More »Ministry of education deters schools from releasing non-candidates during PLE
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education and Sports has rejected a move by several schools to break off for non-candidate classes during PLE. Several schools mainly in urban centres, had sent out circulars asking parents with learners in the boarding section to pick non-candidates in order to …
Read More »UNEB probes possible PLE leakage
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB is investigating a possible leakage of Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE. The examination body is following up on two people suspected of distributing what is said to be national examinations to schools. Although the information about the said probe is still scanty, several …
Read More »Drunk teacher arrested invigilating pre-PLE exams
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kitgum District is holding a teacher of Putuke Primary in Kitgum Matidi Sub County for reporting to school to invigilate pre-PLE examinations while drunk. The Kitgum Matidi Sub County LCIII Chairperson Thomas Khempis Lapyem says that the arrest of Charles Ayella follows …
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