UNEB deploys 7,000 spies to catch cheats
Nov 03, 2002
Watch out, you exam cheats out there! The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) is determined to catch anyone engaging in malpractices in the coming primary leaving, O’ and A’level examinations
By Josephine Maseruka
Watch out, you exam cheats out there! The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) is determined to catch anyone engaging in malpractices in the coming primary leaving, O’ and A’level examinations.
To prove their point, the board has deployed a staggering 7,000 scouts to oversee the exercise.
The Minister of Education and Sports, Dr. Khiddu Makubuya, in a stern voice on Friday warned intending exam cheats that they would be caught.
Penalties will depend on the culprit. Students will be charged and jailed, headteachers and teachers will be de-registered on top of being charged.
If it is a private school, it will be closed and the license cancelled. For Government-owned schools, the headteacher will be de-registered and charged but the school will get another headteacher.
“This time we are after promoting quality education. I will have no mercy, be it my child or relative. I warn all parents, teachers, students, pupils and the Police who are the key culprits,†the minister said.
Makubuya said even parents who give students money to buy examination papers will be arrested. He said their children will be forced to expose them.
He added that headteachers who mis-appropriate students’ examination registration fees would be charged.
He was briefing journalists at the ministry headquarters on the coming national examinations for Primary, ordinary and advanced levels.
Briefing of Senior Six and SEnior Four students is on November 8 while the examinations kick off on November 11.
Watch out, you exam cheats out there! The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) is determined to catch anyone engaging in malpractices in the coming primary leaving, O’ and A’level examinations.
To prove their point, the board has deployed a staggering 7,000 scouts to oversee the exercise.
The Minister of Education and Sports, Dr. Khiddu Makubuya, in a stern voice on Friday warned intending exam cheats that they would be caught.
Penalties will depend on the culprit. Students will be charged and jailed, headteachers and teachers will be de-registered on top of being charged.
If it is a private school, it will be closed and the license cancelled. For Government-owned schools, the headteacher will be de-registered and charged but the school will get another headteacher.
“This time we are after promoting quality education. I will have no mercy, be it my child or relative. I warn all parents, teachers, students, pupils and the Police who are the key culprits,†the minister said.
Makubuya said even parents who give students money to buy examination papers will be arrested. He said their children will be forced to expose them.
He added that headteachers who mis-appropriate students’ examination registration fees would be charged.
He was briefing journalists at the ministry headquarters on the coming national examinations for Primary, ordinary and advanced levels.
Briefing of Senior Six and SEnior Four students is on November 8 while the examinations kick off on November 11.