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The Chinese host of a United Nations world heritage committee has defended a proposal to label the Great Barrier Reef as âin dangerâ, and rejected Australian government suspicion that China influenced the finding for political reasons.
It came as the Morrison government sought to use a new report by Australiaâs marine science agency to argue there had been widespread coral recovery on the reef.
The report, by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, found coral coverage along the 2,300km reef had increased after a year of benign conditions without high ocean temperature or cyclones.
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Education minister Janet Museveni releases Primary Leaving Examination results for 2020 at State House Entebbe yesterday. PHOTO/ DAVID LUBOWA.
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The schools under Universal Primary Education (UPE) have continued to lag behind in performance, the government said yesterday while releasing Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results.
Speaking at the event held at State House Entebbe to release the results, the Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb) executive secretary, Mr Dan Odongo, blamed the poor performance in UPE schools on parents.
Of the 749,761candidates who registered for PLE this year, 236,720 (31.6 per cent) were non UPE, while the 513,085 (68.4 per cent) were from UPE schools, according to Uneb statistics.
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