The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) has indefinitely postponed the registration of candidates for the 2020 national examinations at all levels.
This follows the president’s directive to close all learning institutions in Uganda by midday on Friday.
On Wednesday the president made extensive restrictions which included a 30-day ban on all mass gatherings, ban on movements by Ugandans to or through countries that have registered a very high number of cases among other precautions to be adhered to by the public.
The president said all Educational Institutions including Schools, Colleges, and Universities across the country would effective Friday at midday be closed for 30 days because crowding is the perfect ground for new infections.
Now the UNEB Executive Secretary Dan Odongo says the board will sit to adjust the time table for registration of candidates that was meant to start on April 1st for Primary Leaving and O-Level exams.
Museveni noted that The NRM has promoted education and as a consequence, today, there are 10.7million children in Primary Schools; 2m children in the Pre-Primary Schools; 2 million students in the Secondary Schools; 314,548 students in the Universities and Tertiary Institutions.
This is a total of almost 15million young Ugandans, distributed in 36,285 primary schools (Government and Private), 7,308 Pre-Primary Schools (Government and Private); 5,553 Secondary Schools (Government and Private) and 49Universities and 1,543 Tertiary Institutions (TechnicalSchools, Teacher Training Colleges, VocationalSchools) among others.
“If the 15million were to disperse equally into the 8million homesteads, each homestead would take one and a half students. Since
we cannot have half a student, let us correct to the nearest whole number and we end up with 2 students per each homestead. It is a smart way of avoiding these concentrations in the face of this danger,” Museveni said.
