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Uneb in financial crisis ahead of O'level 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.    “Everything is not well here. We have not received funds to operationalize the standard operating proce...

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 the exams starting on March 1, beginning with Physics practical and IPS Art Still Life/Nature. The exa...

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 before parliament last year seeks to have anyone caught cheating in national examinations jailed fo...

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 conducted in 2 days, UNEB plans to hire additional 19,910 invigilators with each fetching Shs48,500 bringin...

Uneb cancels Kitagwendwa NRM candidate's 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 signed by the Uneb secretary, Dan Odongo, the Uneb security committee invited Mugabe for a hearing on ...