Uganda, Jan. 27 -- The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has asked government to increase funding towards the Universal Primary Education (UPE) whose beneficiaries increased by 1.7 per cent in 2022.

On Friday, Uneb chairperson Prof Mary Okwakol decried limited funding yet UPE pupils have kept increasing in the last five years.

According to Uneb about 583,768 (70.1%) of the 832,654 2022 PLE candidates were pupils who sat exams at 11,306 UPE school centres across Uganda.

"The number of UPE pupils has significantly gone up by 70, 683 but the funds for UPE have remained statistic over the last five year," Prof Okwakol noted at the release of PLE results, an event officiated by first Lady and Education Minister Janet Museveni.

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