A total of 371,143 students who qualified to join Senior One and Senior Five have not been placed in any government or private school that participated in the just-concluded selection exercise.
More than 2,000 schools, both government and private, have since Tuesday last week been conducting both Senior One and Senior Five admission exercises at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala.
Speaking at the closing ceremony Friday, the chairperson of the selection committee in the Ministry of Education, Benson Kule, said they were able to place 600,000 students in Senior One and Senior Five during the four-day exercise.
This means that a total of 371,143 students who passed the 2020 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) and Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) were not admitted during the selection exercise.
A total of 971,143 (659,910, PLE) and (311,233, UCE) students passed the 2020 national examinations and were eligible to join Senior One and Senior Five.
Kule said those who were not selected will find placements in technical, vocational, and nursing institutions, and other private schools.
Meanwhile, Universities and other tertiary Institutions have reopened today for non-medical students who have spent at least four months home, following their closure by the government over covid19.
The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) last month issued guidelines for reopening stating that all tertiary institutions should reopen in a staggered manner while prioritizing first year students.
