Teachers fail exams
Aug 17, 2005
A total of 2745 primary school trainee teachers have failed this year’s Primary Teachers College examinations.
By Jude Etyang
A total of 2745 primary school trainee teachers have failed this year’s Primary Teachers College examinations.
Out of 11,067 candidates, one passed the exam with a distinction, 3,981 passed with a credit and 4,334 got passes in the results of the Grade III Teachers Certificate released yesterday by the Ministry of Education.
The results of four candidates were cancelled due to exam malpractice.
Education minister Namirembe Bitamazire said the names of the failures would be sent to the district education commissions to curb their recruitment on forged certificates.
She said teachers used forged certificates to get recruited by the district councils.
The results were handed over by the vice-chancellor of Kyambogo University, Prof. Lutalo Bbosa.
Bitamazire advised those who failed to re-sit the examinations.
She said teachers who cheated in the examinations would be blacklisted and would never register to train as teachers in any college in the country.
“There are would-be teachers bent on tarnishing the image of the profession. All those candidates whose results have been cancelled shall be disqualified and discontinued from the Grade III Teachers’ Certificate programme,†she said.
Bitamazire (above) said the government was targeting to recruit 130,000 teachers to balance the UPE teacher to pupil ratio of 1:50.
A total of 2745 primary school trainee teachers have failed this year’s Primary Teachers College examinations.
Out of 11,067 candidates, one passed the exam with a distinction, 3,981 passed with a credit and 4,334 got passes in the results of the Grade III Teachers Certificate released yesterday by the Ministry of Education.
The results of four candidates were cancelled due to exam malpractice.
Education minister Namirembe Bitamazire said the names of the failures would be sent to the district education commissions to curb their recruitment on forged certificates.
She said teachers used forged certificates to get recruited by the district councils.
The results were handed over by the vice-chancellor of Kyambogo University, Prof. Lutalo Bbosa.
Bitamazire advised those who failed to re-sit the examinations.
She said teachers who cheated in the examinations would be blacklisted and would never register to train as teachers in any college in the country.
“There are would-be teachers bent on tarnishing the image of the profession. All those candidates whose results have been cancelled shall be disqualified and discontinued from the Grade III Teachers’ Certificate programme,†she said.
Bitamazire (above) said the government was targeting to recruit 130,000 teachers to balance the UPE teacher to pupil ratio of 1:50.