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| Sunday, 25 November 2012 10:48 |
The Citizen Correspondent Kampala.The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has closed Ndejje Secondary School examination marking centre following an outbreak of Ebola in the neighbouring Luweero District. Mr Mathew Bukenya, the Uneb executive secretary, said examiners from Luweero are not expected to participate in this year’s marking exercise at all levels of Primary Leaving Examination (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) and Business Technical Vocational Education Training. About 600 examiners were expected to stay at the centre for about three weeks to mark PLE. The exercise is expected to start on Tuesday. They have been relocated to Namilyango College. “Because of the outbreak of Ebola, we contacted ministry of Health and we were advised against hosting a big number of people at Ndejje SS. No examiner should travel to Ndejje SS for this year’s marking exercise,” Mr Bukenya said in a press release on Thursday. Uneb had earlier planned two venues: Ndejje SS and Namilyango College as centres for marking PLE English paper. A total of 565,663 candidates sat PLE early this month, 268,782 students for UCE, while 13,919 candidates registered for BTVET exams and 111,581 candidates are expected to sit for UACE. Ebola is caused by a virus belonging to a family called filovirus. There.. http://thecitizen.co.tz/news/49-general-elections-news/27404-exams-board-closes-centre-over-ebola.html |
