The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) was established under Ghana’s 1987 educational reforms as the bridge between Junior Secondary School (now Junior High School) and both Senior ...

Festivals celebrate blues, jazz, documentaries and the U.S. Army's birthday; Pride events continue; and Shakespeare plays are performed under the stars.

The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) was established under Ghana’s 1987 Educational Reforms as the bridge ...

Pride Month is still going strong with community events from Poolesville, Maryland, to Mosaic in Fairfax, Virginia. There’s a ...

Guitarist-composer Tyondai Braxton used to play large clubs with the art-rock band Battles, and he took his “Telekinesis,” an ...

They are based on the information we get from students sitting PATs in Term 1 – so a test score that places in a high stanine is good relative to other students sitting the same test. This means that ...

The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) has explained the changes in the grading system for candidates who sat for the 2024 Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) Examination under the new ...

UNEB Board chairperson Prof Celestino Obua explained earlier that the reporting of the achievement levels has changed from the stanine system of 1 to 9 (Distinctions, Credits, Pass and Fail) used in ...

Previously, students received a result slip and certificate separately. Now, the transcript will combine both, clearly indicating competency levels in each subject.

Previously, students received a result slip and certificate separately. Now, the transcript will combine both, clearly indicating competency levels in each subject. With these reforms, Uganda’s ...

Democracy thus exists in gradations. Say from 1 to 9 on a stanine grade. Yet it is democracy that we grade even if assisted by a military in a developing world. It is not right. It should not happen.