The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has proposed tomorrow (Tuesday) as the day for release of the 2016 Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) results.
The Observer has learnt that officials from Uneb, led by its executive secretary Dan N Odongo, will brief the Education Minister Janet Museveni about the results at State house in Nakasero today.
After this meeting, once both the minister and Uneb agree, the results will officially be released tomorrow at the office of the president conference hall in Kampala. The event shall start with a media briefing at 11am before results are open to the public.
Speaking to The Observer last week, Odongo said the board has managed to release results this year at all levels on schedule – thanks to Uneb’s enhanced ICT adoption.
“Our ICT innovations have been very instrumental. We have tremendously reduced on the manual processes that were taking a lot of time,” Odongo said. “This is the direction we are taking for subsequent years to ensure better service delivery.”
According to Odongo, timely release of results is also geared towards enabling parents easily find placements for their children in schools as well as help the ministry of education to conduct the selection exercises for senior one and five students.
With results coming early, this will also give room for universities to prepare early enough to admit students. Some 104,361 senior six candidates registered to sit for UACE exams, an increase of about three per cent from 101,268 candidates in 2015.
Of these, 23,920 candidates were from government schools and 80,441 private. Uneb conducted the examination, from November 14, 2016 and till December 6.
Odongo noted then in a statement that the gender gap in registration at this level remained wide compared to O-level exams where female candidates made up about half (49.1 per cent) of the total candidature.
After the release of results, parents can check results of a candidate by typing: UACE. (leave a space) correct full index number of the candidate and send to 6600. Odongo warns that results obtained by this method are for notification only, and cannot be tendered as official.
“Result slips and certificates remain the only authentic proof of performance, and candidates should collect these from their respective schools from where they registered,” he said at the recent release of UCE exams.
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