UNEB politicised exams â€" Reform
Jan 05, 2004
THE Reform Agenda (RA) has accused the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) of setting sub-standard Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in order to prove a political point.
By Geresom Musamali
THE Reform Agenda (RA) has accused the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) of setting sub-standard Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in order to prove a political point.
RA information and publicity secretary Beti O. Kamya told the weekly press briefing yesterday that Universal Primary Education (UPE) has been politicised through the setting of a very simple PLE last year.
UNEB spokesperson Eva Konde, however, dismissed the allegations, saying national examinations could not be politicised.
Kamya said the first question in Mathematics was not hard enough for a P7 candidate and that other questions were equally easy.
“It would appear like the examinations were designed to show the success of UPE. You do not put politics in education. We would like the minister to assure us that quality was not compromised,†she said.
Konde said there was nothing political about the way the examination was set last year.
She said it is a usual UNEB format to set simple Mathematical questions at the beginning of the paper.
Kamya said UPE is a good programme haunted by low teacher morale, inappropriate examinations and corruption in the award of tenders for classroom construction.
Present at the conference were RA officials Louis Otika and Naboth Muhirwe.
THE Reform Agenda (RA) has accused the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) of setting sub-standard Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in order to prove a political point.
RA information and publicity secretary Beti O. Kamya told the weekly press briefing yesterday that Universal Primary Education (UPE) has been politicised through the setting of a very simple PLE last year.
UNEB spokesperson Eva Konde, however, dismissed the allegations, saying national examinations could not be politicised.
Kamya said the first question in Mathematics was not hard enough for a P7 candidate and that other questions were equally easy.
“It would appear like the examinations were designed to show the success of UPE. You do not put politics in education. We would like the minister to assure us that quality was not compromised,†she said.
Konde said there was nothing political about the way the examination was set last year.
She said it is a usual UNEB format to set simple Mathematical questions at the beginning of the paper.
Kamya said UPE is a good programme haunted by low teacher morale, inappropriate examinations and corruption in the award of tenders for classroom construction.
Present at the conference were RA officials Louis Otika and Naboth Muhirwe.