Uganda, Jan. 28 -- On Thursday the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) released results from last year's Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE).

There were two downsides though. The first was that 12,323 out of the 749,254 pupils who registered for the exams did not write them.

The other was that 88,269, 38,346 boys and 49,926 girls, out of the 736,931 candidates who sat for the exams were ungraded.

That means that they cannot pursue secondary or vocational education.

The Minister for Education and Sports, Ms Janet Museveni, while addressing herself to the matter of candidates who did not write the exams, called for prescription of "solutions that prevent" the continuation of the trend.

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