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The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has trained local government officials on competency based assessment under the new lower secondary school curriculum.

“UNEB has successfully engaged about 200 district education officers, chief executive officers and Chief administrative officers on the assessment under the New Lower Secondary School Curriculum,” UNEB stated today, February 8, 2024, on X (formerly Twitter).

According to UNEB, the meeting held at the Board's Kyambogo office is the first in the series of stakeholder engagements, ahead of the Competency Based Assessment (CBA) under the NLSC that starts this year. 

The local government managers hailed UNEB for realising the critical role of the local governments in the implementation of the new curriculum and committed to fully supporting the processes.

They  pledged their support to work with UNEB and all the other stakeholders to ensure that the competency based assessment is carried out to be successful.

Competency based assessment is a methodical approach that evaluates individuals based on their demonstrated skills, behaviours, and knowledge relevant to their roles.

The Ministry of Education and Sports through the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) introduced a competence-based curriculum in secondary schools in 2020 and has since held training sessions for teachers across the country on how to implement the new curriculum.

The competency based assessment emphasises learner-centered pedagogies and integration of technological and practical innovations in the teaching/learning process.

The 2020 secondary school language competence-based curriculum replaced the 2008 Integrated English teaching syllabus that emphasised the use of integration at either subject or unit level as opposed to the teaching of language in isolated compartments like grammar, vocabulary, comprehension or writing.