UNEB to re-print and issue fresh result slips to 3,972 students who sat for the 2019 PLE
The Deputy Executive Director of KCCA, Eng. David Luyimbazi, said they were working hand in hand with UNEB about the issue. Mr Masikye revealed that KCCA has paid the required money for the lost results slips and the board is set to print them out.
KAMPALA - The acting UNEB Executive Director, Mr Mike Nakosya Masikye has revealed that the board has worked on an amicable arrangement with Kampala capital City Authority to re-print and issue fresh result slips to the affected learners.
KCCA has been under pressure from parents after it lost result slips of 3,972 students who sat for the 2019 PLE.
The Deputy Executive Director of KCCA, Eng. David Luyimbazi, said they were working hand in hand with UNEB about the issue. Mr Masikye revealed that KCCA has paid the required money for the lost results slips and the board is set to print them out.
Meanwhile, the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has extended by one month the late registration deadline for candidates slated to sit their national exams this year.
According to UNEB, while normal registration will go on until May 31, late registration will go on up to July 31 instead of the earlier set deadline of June 31. Late registration, however, attracts a surcharge.
The acting UNEB Executive Director, Mr Mike Nakosya Masikye said they have resolved to give parents more time to look for resources to have the learners registered. We established that the one-month late registration deadline we were giving parents was not enough because a number of learners have not yet registered. We are positive that within two months, all learners will be catered for,” Mr Masikye said yesterday while addressing journalists at Uganda Media Centre.
The registration of candidates for the Primary Leaving Examination(PLE), Uganda Certificate ofEducation (UCE) and Uganda Advanced Certificate ofEducation (UACE) kicked off on April 1. The normal registration fees for PLE is UShs34,000, UCE is UShs164,000 and UACE is UShs186,000.
However, Mr Masikye said candidates who will miss the normal registration timelines will be required to pay a surcharge for late registration amounting to UShs68,000 for PLE, UShs246,000 for UCE and UShs279,000for UACE in phase one, between June 1 and
June 30.
The last phase of late registration will run from July 1 to July31 and will attract a surcharge of 100 percent at all levels, with PLE pupils slated to pay UShs68,000, UCE UShs328,000 and UACE UShs372,000.
Meanwhile, schools that will hike registration fees set by UNEB will be subjected to a fine amounting to UShs40m.
Section 33 of the UNEB Act, 2021, makes it an offence for any school that charges fees not prescribed by the board.
“Such an offence attracts a penalty of two thousand currency points (UShs40m) or a term of imprisonment not exceeding ten years or both. Additionally, the person convicted shall pay back the amount to the concerned students or their sponsors on top of the board withdrawing the examination centre number of the school,” Mr Masikye said.
A number of schools have been hiking the fees for registration in the guise of seeking to cater for administrative costs they incur.
Paul Kusolo a teacher at Bulucheke SS in Bududa in an exclusive interview with John Kusolo our reporter says that the UNEB fee does not put into consideration the costs schools incur in registration of learners such as paying data entrants, passport photos and stationary.
