By: Melanie Aanyu

The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) boss has revealed that the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) will be released next week as schools countrywide prepare to open for the new academic year 2023.

While appearing before the Parliamentary Education Committee yesterday, the executive director of Uneb, Mr Daniel Odongo, said marking of PLE and the Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams ended before Christmas.

The team was appearing before Parliament to defend their budget framework paper for the Financial Year 2023/2024.

A total of 832,839 candidates sat for PLE.

In an interview with the media after the meeting, Mr Odongo said the internal examinations’ security committee is sitting today to consider the results for candidates suspected of involvement in malpractices.

He said the committee will then determine which results to withhold before exams are released to the public.