Uganda Education News: UNEB released technical examination results for 2011

Ultimate Media

The ministry of education and sports has today released the 2011 technical examination results indicating a declining performance by students who sat for the exams.

The results included those of Community Polytechnics Certificate of Education, Uganda Junior Technical Education Certificate and Technical Education examinations.

In Polytechnics certificate levels, a total of 352 students sat for the examinations of which 7 did business courses while 345 did technical. However, the results released by education and sports minister Jessica Alupo yesterday showed that out of 345 who did technical, 221 got failures with only 124 passing the exams mainly with passes and credits.

Turning to Technical Education Examination (TEE), a total of 12271 candidates sat for both craft part I certificate courses and others part II advanced certificate.

Out of 7226 who sat for part I, a total of 3661 students registered failures (50.7%) with only 25 getting distinctions, 933 credits and 2607 passes.

On part II, out of 5045 candidates, 2071 walked home with failures while 51 bagged distinctions, 1184 credits and 1739 passes.

At this level, students excelled in Plumbing part II, agricultural engineering mechanics, carpentry and joinery part I, leather tanning and shoe making and performed poorly in courses of painters and decorators craft part I, full technological craft part III (Building), motor vehicle technician part I&III, block laying and concrete craft part I and tailoring among others.

For the case of junior technical education, a total of 8204 candidates sat of which 3230 (39%) wasted their time going to the examination room. There were 2509 credits and 2465 passes with only 48 distinctions.

The students here performed better in courses like principles of tropical agriculture stages I&II while the worst done courses here were motor vehicle mechanics and carpentry and that the results indicated that much as the performance was poor, the slight good performance was mainly by males.

UNEB executive secretary Mathew Bukenya said results of 24 students are being held on grounds of malpractice and attributed the poor performance to lack of preparedness by candidates for the exams, poor supervision and teaching, poor industrial training, lack of required facilities for training in practicals and failure to express themselves in English.