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Daily Monitor Saturday July 17 2021 Education minister Janet Museveni releases Primary Leaving Examination results for 2020 at State House Entebbe yesterday. PHOTO/ DAVID LUBOWA. Summary Advertisement 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 Boar...

Exam cheats risk 10 years in prison, Shs 40m fine April 10, 2021 Olevel students sitting their national exams recently The Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb) has warned senior six candidates against exam malpractices, saying they risk facing a 10-year jail sentence if convicted.  A total of 98,393 senior six candidates from 2,339 examination centres will next week start their final exams across the country. Dan Odongo, executive secretary, s...

Daily Monitor Sunday March 14 2021 Rest in eternal peace. Lapwony Michael Ocan was a teacher of Physics and Mathematics whose values included discipline and integrity. Photo | Courtesy. Summary In memoriam. Dad never stopped reading the Bible, newspapers and he loved keeping tabs with current affairs. Jimmy Odoki Acellam, the eldest son of Lapwony Michael  and Betty Aol Ocan pays tribute to his father, four years later. Advertisement Four years ago, on February 22, a bright light in our famil...

Dad never stopped reading the Bible, newspapers and he loved keeping tabs with current affairs

This comes as candidates prepare for the 2020 National Examinations, with the 2021 exams cycle already around the corner amid continued closure of schools. The federation now calls for concerted efforts by all stakeholders to ensure the syllabi are covered in good time for the candidates to sit for 2021 national exams in November/December. The UNEB Secretary General Dan Odongo has since revealed that 2020 exams will be standard in nature despite the closure of schools occasioned by the outbreak...

Uneb in financial crisis ahead of Olevel exams February 22, 2021 Dan Odongo, Uneb executive secretary Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) is battling financial challenges that might affect the preparation and management of 2020 final examinations.  According to sources in the examinations body, the board lacks funds to finance a number of activities ahead of the Uganda Certificate Examinations (UCE) scheduled to start on March 1.    “Eve...

Daily Monitor Saturday February 20 2021 Advertisement KAMPALA-  Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has released exams timetable for the 2020 candidates  at primary, ordinary and advanced level of  education. Mr Dan Odongo, the Uneb executive secretary, said the exams are being held in 2021 because of the need to make up for the time lost by the candidates during the Covid-19 induced lockdown. Briefings for Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) will be conducted on February 26, with th...

Addressing journalists at the media center, the UNEB Secretary General Dan Odongo says the exams will be standard in nature despite the closure of schools occasioned by the outbreak of covid19. Odongo says they expect all schools to have used the study materials distributed during the lockdown period and the time candidates have been physically at school since October to have finished the syllabus. Dan Odongo has also commended parliament for passing the UNEB Bill 2020. The bill that was tabled...

The request was made by Dan Odongo, Executive Secretary UNEB while appearing before Parliament’s Budget Committee to defend the supplementary budget request. Odongo defended the supplementary funding arguing that before the pandemic, the Board required spacing of 1.2 meters but this distance has to be adjusted to 2m meters to conform with the SOPs, a development that would require more invigilators to cover the additional rooms to be used. For Primary Leaving Examinations that will be conduct...

Uneb cancels Kitagwendwa NRM candidates academic papers January 1, 2021 Robert Mugabe has had his academic papers cancelled by Uneb The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has cancelled the academic papers of the Kitagwenda NRM LC V candidate, Robert Mugabe. The decision stems from a complaint by a concerned resident, Kenneth Tumwebaze, accusing Mugabe of forging his Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) result slip.   According to a ruling sig...