The gate of Uganda Martyrs Namugongo, Wakiso District. PHOTO/ FILE
On Tuesday, the Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb) officially released the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) 2024 results under the new lower Secondary Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC), where 350,146 (98 percent) of 359,417 candidates passed and qualified for the award of UCE certificate.
The new curriculum came with new assessment criteria, which now present learner's level of achievement in each subject with a grade of either A, B, C, D or E. The Ministry of Education has subsequently set February 20 and 21 as the dates schools will be selecting their learners for Senior Five.
“The [Education] ministry normally requests Uneb to do the placement, depending on the guidelines that it gives. If you look at the current UCE grading, it also goes from A to E and O. We carry out selection using those grades. So the template, if I may say, with some modification that we have used for placement for the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE), will be the same,” Uneb Executive Director Daniel Odong said.
The traditional schools with some government-aided and others purely private, have maintained their status quo in terms of performance at UACE, according to statistics from Uneb 2023.
Some of the traditional schools include St Mary's SSS Kitende in Wakiso District, Mengo SS in Kampala, Uganda Martyrs Namugongo, Gombe SS in Butambala District, Seeta High School in Mukono and King's College, Budo, in Wakiso. Others are Buddo SS, Citizens SS in Ibanda, Masaka SS, St Joseph’s SS Nagalama, St Mark College Namagoma and Bishop Cipriano Kihangire SS in Kampala.
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