Kisugu High School director detained ,UCE exams
Kisugu High School director detained ,UCE exams
Celestine Kasolo, the director and teacher of Kisugu High School, was sent to Luzira Prison by the Makindye Chief Magistrate’s court on 12 counts of causing disturbances during examinations and wrongfully detaining four senior candidates.
Igga Adiru, a grade one magistrate, read the arraignment of Kasolo. The prosecution, led by state attorney Carol Opa, presented evidence to the court on October 26, 2023, stating that Kasolo had the intention of interfering with the conduct of an examination at a location that had been designated as an examination center by disturbing six candidates as they were writing their final exams at Kisugu High School in Makindye Division, Kampala district.
The following applicants did not show up for the biology exam: Simon Peter Mandiko, Robert Ojambo, Nicholas Orionzi, Al Mahad Saddick, Daniel Achom, and Calvin Onyango. They were disturbed during the exam. The court was also informed that Kasolo had illegally kept the pupils in his office all day on the pretext of indiscipline.
He was sent to prison until November 12 for his bail hearing after he refuted the accusations. The site assistant Abdul Karim Sseguya, better known as Fresh Karim, who lives on Gangu A Zone Busabala Road Makindye Ssabagabo, was also accused of possessing test materials without authorization by the same court.
It is claimed that in October 2023, Fresh Karim knowingly obtained materials or information from the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) through social media accounts, either before or during the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams. The materials purport to pertain to the content of the UCE 2023. He has also refuted the accusations.
It is not the first time that a teacher has faced legal charges connected texam-related matters. Six individuals, including headteachers, were remanded to Luzira prison by the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court last month due to allegations of examination malpractice.
Every year, thousands of results are withheld from Uganda’s test cycle due to a growing amount of misconduct. The commercialization of education, which has gradually permeated Uganda’s educational system, is one of the fundamental causes of this problem.
An increasing amount of examination results being withheld annually as a result of misconduct, a phenomenon Uneb has frequently linked to inadequate legal frameworks. But since the new Act was introduced, the board has developed a strong system for identifying and following up on possible misconduct, which has resulted in the arrest, conviction, and sentencing of many parties.
Uneb discovered a scheme involving Masaka teachers purportedly using social media to leak PLE texts to candidates last year. In addition, on the day of the examination, a second group was caught trying to open a sealed parcel labeled PLE illegally. Before going into the exam room, they planned to take pictures and show them to their students.
Apart from the individuals who disclosed Uneb papers, a number of educational institutions and students were duped in the past by fraudulent exam papers that were spreading on social media platforms just days before the candidates’ exams were due.
For the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE), Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE), and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE), a total of 1,224,371 applicants have enrolled to take their final exams.
After informing UCE applicants, the tests began on October 13 and will run until November 17, 2023. November 7–9, 2023 is when PLE will take place, and November 10–December 1, 2023 is when UACE will happen.
