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.
Summary
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.
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 bringing the total to Shs1.931 billion.
In Uganda Certificate Examinations, UNEB plans to hire additional 8,703 and each would be paid Shs48,500 bringing total to Shs5.909 billion while UACE will need 4,747 invigilators to oversee average 10days of examinations at a cost of Shs2.302 billion.