Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) conducted a training of technical and vocational registrars on the Examination Information Management System. However, Dr. Nahamya Wilfred, UBTEB Deputy Executive Secretary, revealed that the training was aimed at equipping staff involved in examinations, registration of students, and uploading of marks. “We took them through our Examination Information…
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has provided an update about the release of the 2023 UACE results. It should be noted that this will be the last batch of national exams at the secondary level done last year. However, UNEB only teased the public with the poster of when to expect these exams, and…
The Uganda National Examinations Board, UNEB has released last year’s Uganda Certificate of Education, UCE examination results with a decline in malpractice. However, the results for at least 349,459 candidates who sat the exams last year were released on Thursday at the State Lodge, Nakasero, in a function presided over by the Minister for Education…
A section of Makerere University staff under the Makerere University Academic Staff Association, among other groups, has vowed to strike today over salary. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Barnabas Nawangwe, has since urged the group to reconsider their impending strike and give the government time to address salary harmonization. Mr. Nawangwe told uncoveredug news reporters that…
The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has halted dual admissions into medical and health sciences programs, saying each training institution should have only one intake a year to optimize the quality of graduates. However, Kampala International University (KIU), a private institution with three intakes a year (January, April, and August), said they would engage…
Makerere University has started the search for a new chancellor to replace Prof. Ezra Suruma, who has served for the past eight years. Prof. Suruma assumed office as the chancellor of Makerere University in January 2016 after being appointed by President Museveni on December 2, 2015. “Must be between the minimum age of 55 and…
Makerere University student identified as Patricia Ochola Erik was discovered lifeless in her dormitory room. However, she was a first-year student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with Education and awaiting to sit for her end-of-second semester exams. Meanwhile, the warden of Africa Hall, Ms. Grace Nalugya Kabuye, also confirmed the untimely death of the deceased,…
The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has hired 14,000 teachers to expedite the marking of student scripts. The exam body indicates that about 6,000 teachers have been invited to mark Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), while 8,000 others have been contracted to deal with the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education…
The Mbarara University of Science and Technology community is in mourning at the moment. This follows the unfortunate demise of one of the students. The deceased has been identified as Rukiga Abura, a third-year student in the department of anesthesia. This is in the Faculty of Medicine. The Dean of Students at the university made…
Makerere University has set new dates for the 74th graduation ceremony, during which 13,000 students are expected to graduate at the institution’s main campus in Kampala. Additionally, a letter released yesterday by Prof. Mukadasi Buyinza, the academic registrar, said the graduation ceremony will be held next year, between January 22 and January 26. The University…
