By; Ben Musanje
22nd Oct. 2020
Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) has directed all schools across the country to register students who got pregnant during the COVID-19 induced lockdown for them to seat their final exams.
Florence Nakiwala Kiyinji the State Minister for Youth and Children Affairs recently indicated that at least 2,730 teenage girls got pregnant during the first three months in the lockdown.
Addressing journalists at Uganda Media Center in Kampala on matters of registration of candidates and schools increasing registration fees, the UNEB Executive Secretary Daniel Odongo said that the number of students who got pregnant is very high compared to those used to register in previous exams under such a condition and it’s challenging to deny them chance to seat for their finals.
Later Odongo announced the official dates for sitting the final examinations or UNEB exams; Primary Leaving Exams (PLE) will be conducted on 30th and 31st March, the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) will start on April 1st – 6th April and UACE finalists will do their exams from April12th to May 3rd 2021.
He emphasizes that students will be required to pay registration fees of Shs 34,000 for PLE, Shs 164,000 for UCE and Shs 186,000 for UACE and schools with center number challenges have been restricted from transferring students and pupils into other districts for exams.
Registration of candidates begins today October 22nd and will run for five weeks with no room for late registration since it’s digitalized; Odongo says.
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