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Photo: Image showing Lual, a 21-year-old disabled boy in Awiel
About a fortnight ago, as pupils across the country sat the Primary Leaving Examinations across South Sudan, 21-year-old John Lual Garang was not left behind, and the rare sight of him writing using his mouth fascinated not only his teachers but also the exam invigilators.
A pupil at Yargot Primary School in Yinh-Jier village of Aweil East County, Lual is disabled and is not able to use his limbs, he suffers from what may be considered functional limbs weakness, which has rendered his hands and legs functionless.
“I was born healthy, not like this. I was fine until I was four years old when somebody bewitched me,” Lual told Radio Tamazuj.
Daily Monitor
Monday February 22 2021
Dorcus Chepkopus reading through her self study materials in Ashiokanion Village, Kalita Sub County, Amudat District in August 2020. Many children in rural areas faced learning challenges during school closure. PHOTO/PAUL MURUNGI.
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With all three groups of finalists about five months short of the traditional school schedule, how prepared are they ahead of the final examination dates?
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Traditionally, the academic year has lasted a year from January to December. The spell caters for primary and secondary students with Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examinations coming at the climax of Primary Seven, Senior Four and Senior Six respectively. The year is divided into three terms to cater for holidays.
Daily Monitor
Saturday February 20 2021
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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 the exams starting on March 1, beginning with Physics practical and IPS Art Still Life/Nature. The exams will end on April 6 with Technical Drawing and Electrical Practice, among others.
Daily Monitor
Friday February 19 2021
Students register and screen for Covid-19 symptoms at Luzira Secondary School in October 2020. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA
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Even with the opening of education institutions for candidate classes last year, the funds collected, they say, are insufficient to adequately run their businesses and service the loans acquired from financial institutions.
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Owners of private schools in Uganda have threatened to stop operating under current conditions saying the government s decision to maintain the partial operation of schools is financially unsustainable and could lead to some of them losing their property.
Under their umbrella organization, Proprietors of Private Education Institutions’ Association in Uganda, private schools said they acquired loans from different financial institutions that they are failing to service following the closure of educational institutions in March last year.