Uganda, March 9 -- As has been the trend for some time now, private schools outperformed government-aided schools in the just released 2023 Uganda Advanced Certificate Examinations (UACE).

Although the Uganda National Examination Board (Uneb) showed improved performance as compared to last year, the schools implementing the Universal Post O-Level Education and Training (UPOLET) programme were still no match for the private schools.

According to statistics from Uneb, 110,553 candidates registered for the 2023 UACE. The number of students who actually wrote their final exams was 109,488. Of these, 24,679 registered under the UPOLET programme last year compared to 17,321 in 2022.

Uneb highlighted that a large number of students were not u...