The Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) 2019 results were released\ntoday. The ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Education and Sports,\nFirst lady Janet Kataha Museveni. In her remarks today, she called upon\nteachers to avoid the tendency of rushing through the syllabus as the whole\ncurriculum is important to the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There has also been an improvement in the results showing\n92.2% of the candidates passed compared to the 87.2% in 2018. 337,730\ncandidates were registered this year which shows an increase from the 335,735\nthat were registered in 2018. The number of girls registered was also higher\nthan the number of boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UNEB chairperson Mary Okwalol was pleased to announce that the\nexams run smoothly and no cases of leakage were reported. She almost commented\non the low performance of girls in science subjects and asked the exams board\nto get to the root of the cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UNEB thanked everyone that participated in the UCE exercise\nto ensure it was a success including the police and military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) 2019 results were released today. The ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Education and Sports, First lady Janet Kataha Museveni. In her remarks today, she called upon teachers to avoid the tendency of rushing through the syllabus as the whole curriculum is important to the students. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19144,"featured_media":13592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[434],"class_list":["post-13591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-education"],"yoast_head":"\n