No teaching after briefing, says UNEB
A PLE candidate writes exams last year. FILE PHOTO
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- The Police deputy spokesperson, Ms Polly Namaye, said they had beefed up their force with other officers from other sister agencies such as Internal Security Organisation to avert any malpractice that could come up.
KAMPALA. The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has warned schools sitting Primary Seven candidates that they should stop teaching during the examination period and that no candidate should be allowed to leave the examination centres for lunch.
“We want to warn all schools that after this briefing has ended, we don’t expect any further teaching to be taking place. All candidates should be given equal opportunity to demonstrate their levels of ability without anyone trying to interfere. Where lunch is provided to the candidate, this must be provided within the sitting centres. No candidate must be taken out of the school compound in pretext that they are going for lunch,” Mr Dan Odongo, Uneb executive secretary said at a media briefing yesterday.
Unlike in the past, question papers will be escorted from district headquarters to sitting centres by police to avoid distributors from taking advantage and sneaking out the examination papers before time.
At least 8,500 scouts in addition to 116 monitors have been deployed to supervise 646,080 PLE candidates from 12,751 examination centres across the country for the two-day activity.
“Question papers will be escorted from the district headquarters by police to the different sitting centres. This has been necessitated because we have had the occasional distributors who stop along the way and try to open and access the contents of the envelope before candidates sit them,” Mr Odongo said.
The Police deputy spokesperson, Ms Polly Namaye, said they had beefed up their force with other officers from other sister agencies such as Internal Security Organisation to avert any malpractice that could come up.
