40% Fail In Teacher Exams
Aug 17, 2003
Bitamazire directed that district education officers get copies of blacklisted students so that they do not get employed .
By Joyce Namutebi
A total of 4,367 (nearly 40%) candidates have failed the 2003 Grade 3 Primary Teachers’ Colleges Examinations .
Releasing the results the Minister of State for Primary Education, Namirembe Bitamazire, cautioned that candidates whose results have been cancelled shall be disqualified and discontinued.
“Such candidates are blacklisted and can never register to train as teachers in any college in the country,†she said.
Sixteen candidates had their examinations cancelled due to malpractice, the Vice-Chancellor, Kyambogo University, Prof. Lutalo Bbosa, said.
Bitamazire directed that district education officers get copies of blacklisted students so that they do not get employed .
She told The New Vision that most failures seem to be from part-time students. She said there are licensed teachers who taught and at the same time attended lessons on weekends and holidays under the Teacher Development and Management Support.
Bitamazire said some of the students had left the system for more than three years. A total of 4,367 (nearly 40%) candidates have failed the 2003 Grade 3 Primary Teachers’ Colleges Examinations .
Releasing the results the Minister of State for Primary Education, Namirembe Bitamazire, cautioned that candidates whose results have been cancelled shall be disqualified and discontinued.
“Such candidates are blacklisted and can never register to train as teachers in any college in the country,†she said.
Sixteen candidates had their examinations cancelled due to malpractice, the Vice-Chancellor, Kyambogo University, Prof. Lutalo Bbosa, said.
Bitamazire directed that district education officers get copies of blacklisted students so that they do not get employed .
She told The New Vision that most failures seem to be from part-time students. She said there are licensed teachers who taught and at the same time attended lessons on weekends and holidays under the Teacher Development and Management Support.
Bitamazire said some of the students had left the system for more than three years.
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A total of 4,367 (nearly 40%) candidates have failed the 2003 Grade 3 Primary Teachers’ Colleges Examinations .
Releasing the results the Minister of State for Primary Education, Namirembe Bitamazire, cautioned that candidates whose results have been cancelled shall be disqualified and discontinued.
“Such candidates are blacklisted and can never register to train as teachers in any college in the country,†she said.
Sixteen candidates had their examinations cancelled due to malpractice, the Vice-Chancellor, Kyambogo University, Prof. Lutalo Bbosa, said.
Bitamazire directed that district education officers get copies of blacklisted students so that they do not get employed .
She told The New Vision that most failures seem to be from part-time students. She said there are licensed teachers who taught and at the same time attended lessons on weekends and holidays under the Teacher Development and Management Support.
Bitamazire said some of the students had left the system for more than three years. A total of 4,367 (nearly 40%) candidates have failed the 2003 Grade 3 Primary Teachers’ Colleges Examinations .
Releasing the results the Minister of State for Primary Education, Namirembe Bitamazire, cautioned that candidates whose results have been cancelled shall be disqualified and discontinued.
“Such candidates are blacklisted and can never register to train as teachers in any college in the country,†she said.
Sixteen candidates had their examinations cancelled due to malpractice, the Vice-Chancellor, Kyambogo University, Prof. Lutalo Bbosa, said.
Bitamazire directed that district education officers get copies of blacklisted students so that they do not get employed .
She told The New Vision that most failures seem to be from part-time students. She said there are licensed teachers who taught and at the same time attended lessons on weekends and holidays under the Teacher Development and Management Support.
Bitamazire said some of the students had left the system for more than three years.
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