By Winnie Masiika,
KAMPALA
The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has hired about 14000 examiners who will be marking the three sets of UNEB Examinations which are ending this week.
The UNEB Principal Public Relations officer, Jennifer Kalule Musamba said on Monday (November 27) that they have commenced marking process.
The exercise will start with the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), and Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) papers and later Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examinations which is expected to start next week
“6000 examiners will be charged with marking the PLE and 8000 will mark the UCE exam scripts. And 33 marking centres have been marked for the exercise. 13 centres will be used for marking PLE and 20 for marking UCE exam scripts,” said Kalule.
UNEB dismissed as false a document circulated s last week indicating that the board was considering issuing a supplementary Physics exam for UACE after the paper they did had mistakes.
Kalule asked the public to disregard the document,noting that no supplementary paper has been organized.