Uganda: Your Child Needs Support After UNEB Results Are Out

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Uganda: Your Child Needs Support After UNEB Results Are Out

[Monitor] Finally, Uganda Advanced Certificate of Examination 2020 results have been released by the Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb). One can only imagine what it was like for Uneb to conduct these examinations, and release results, for the year 2020. Given the circumstance, the exam managers and all those involved are congratulated. It must be a huge sigh of relief for parents, teachers and students.

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