150 students to miss 2007 UNEB exams
Jul 05, 2007
A TOTAL of 150 Senior Four students will miss this year’s national examinations after their head teachers failed to register them.
By Carol Natukunda
and Chris Kiwawulo
A TOTAL of 150 Senior Four students will miss this year’s national examinations after their head teachers failed to register them.
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) spokesperson, Eva Konde, yesterday said headmasters of three schools had picked the registration forms but did not return them.
She named the schools as St. Aloysius Secondary School in Kyetume, Wakiso district, St. Agnes Vocational Secondary School in Natyole, Luweero, and Bananda High School in Busia. St. Aloysius took 60 forms, St. Agnes 40 and Bananda 50, Konde revealed.
“They are making us wonder why they took the forms and refuse to return them. We are going to ask the head teachers to explain. Did they not want to register their students?†she asked.
UNEB concluded the late registration exercise on May 31 after some students had not registered by the earlier deadline of April 30. Those who missed, she advised, should wait for the next academic year.
As for A’level students, Konde said all school head teachers had returned the forms they picked.
Asked whether all primary head teachers had returned the forms for P7 candidates, Konde said: “We have not yet established any complaints.â€
Konde’s revelations come in the wake of the arrest of a head teacher in Nsambya, a Kampala suburb, after he failed to pay registration fees amounting to sh2.9m for 24 O’level students.
The Police on Tuesday arrested Pastor Elijah Ssemugabi after the students, who paid sh120,000 each, discovered that they had not been registered.
Ssemugabi, who is the director of Hossana High School in Makindye division, had reportedly promised to register the students at Ggaba Parents School since his school had no centre number.
Meanwhile, UNEB has clarified that CHOGM will only affect the A’level exams. The students will begin their exams in the second week of November until the 19th and resume in December, after the summit.
Exams for Primary Leaving Examinations, Uganda Certificate in Education and the Uganda Joint Technical Certificate will end before CHOGM.
and Chris Kiwawulo
A TOTAL of 150 Senior Four students will miss this year’s national examinations after their head teachers failed to register them.
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) spokesperson, Eva Konde, yesterday said headmasters of three schools had picked the registration forms but did not return them.
She named the schools as St. Aloysius Secondary School in Kyetume, Wakiso district, St. Agnes Vocational Secondary School in Natyole, Luweero, and Bananda High School in Busia. St. Aloysius took 60 forms, St. Agnes 40 and Bananda 50, Konde revealed.
“They are making us wonder why they took the forms and refuse to return them. We are going to ask the head teachers to explain. Did they not want to register their students?†she asked.
UNEB concluded the late registration exercise on May 31 after some students had not registered by the earlier deadline of April 30. Those who missed, she advised, should wait for the next academic year.
As for A’level students, Konde said all school head teachers had returned the forms they picked.
Asked whether all primary head teachers had returned the forms for P7 candidates, Konde said: “We have not yet established any complaints.â€
Konde’s revelations come in the wake of the arrest of a head teacher in Nsambya, a Kampala suburb, after he failed to pay registration fees amounting to sh2.9m for 24 O’level students.
The Police on Tuesday arrested Pastor Elijah Ssemugabi after the students, who paid sh120,000 each, discovered that they had not been registered.
Ssemugabi, who is the director of Hossana High School in Makindye division, had reportedly promised to register the students at Ggaba Parents School since his school had no centre number.
Meanwhile, UNEB has clarified that CHOGM will only affect the A’level exams. The students will begin their exams in the second week of November until the 19th and resume in December, after the summit.
Exams for Primary Leaving Examinations, Uganda Certificate in Education and the Uganda Joint Technical Certificate will end before CHOGM.