Education ministry kicks off Senior Five selection
The two-day selection exercise will see 236,280 students join Advanced level and 93,659 tertiary institutions.
KAMPALA | The Ministry of Education has commenced Senior Five national placement exercise in Kampala.
The two-day selection exercise will see 236,280 students join Advanced level and 93,659 tertiary institutions.
In Monday's placement exercise, cutoff points for Senior Five was largely determined by the general senior four performance and the quality of students different schools want.
Gayaza High School cutoff point stand at Aggregate 11 from 13 in 2023,
with 100 students admitted out of 1,300 applications.
Mengo SS cutoff points stand at 14 aggregate for boys and 16 aggregate for girls from 16 and 17 aggregates, respectively, in 2023.
The school admitted 440 students.
Oriajin Secondary School in Terego Disrict cutoff points stand at 55 aggregate for girls and 45 for boys from 60 and 50 in 2023.
Teachers say cutoff aggregates were lowered due to a country wide improvement in the just released senior four examination results and the quality of students schools want.
Out of 329,939 students to cross the Ordinary level line, 236,280 students will join Advanced level 93,659 students will join and public and private technical institutions.
"Here, we are only placing learners to Senior Five, and we expect to place 236,280 students into the secondary schools, both public and private," Jane Egau Okou, the chairperson of the placement committee, said.
"The remaining 93,659 students will be absorbed in the 87 government TVET institutions that admit O-Level leavers and to over 700 private TVET institutions across the country."
Okou emphasised the need for schools to leave vacancies for special consideration like the vulnerable, foreigners and those whose results were held
Ismael Mulindwa, an official who represented the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Sports, said because of the new curriculum, students who failed will be given a chance to rewrite the exams on a date to be announced by the national examiner.
"As communicated by the Minister, the Ministry, through UNEB, is providing a one-off opportunity for the learners, who studied under the old curriculum but did not either sit or pass the last UCE examinations, to sit the examinations sometime this year,| he said.
The details of this special and last examination will soon be communicated to all stakeholders.
"This is to ensure that no learner is disadvantaged in our transitional arrangements. Note that they will be recognized as part of the 2023 cohort of learners," said Mulindwa.
