KAMPALA- Public Universities Joint Admissions Board has issued new criteria to Senior Six candidates wishing to apply for government scholarship in the five public universities beginning next academic year.
Mr Charles Ssentongo, the Makerere University academic registrar, said the board will next year use three principal subjects instead of four when calculating entry points to institutions of higher learning.
The changes follow government’s directive two years ago to scrap four principal subjects and introducing compulsory Sub-Mathematics and Information Communication Technology (ICT) subsidiary subjects for advanced level students.
“We have reduced the subject category from four to three. We used to have essential, relevant, desirable and others but the latter has been removed,” Mr Ssentongo said.
He explained that the maximum points a candidate could score have reduced from 25 to 20 points.
The students have up to December 20 to submit their forms, which will be a basis for their selection on government scheme once results are out.
A subject taken at subsidiary level such as General Paper, Sub-Maths or Computer Studies shall carry one point. A subsidiary pass ranges from grades one to six [1 to 6].
A subject taken at subsidiary level such as General Paper, Sub-Maths or Computer Studies shall carry one point. A subsidiary pass ranges from grades one to six [1 to 6].
He warned that the board has noted over the years that most candidates apply for only ‘popular’ and highly competitive programmes including Law, Social Work and Social Administration, Business Administration, Medicine and Surgery, Pharmacy and Electrical Engineering leaving out other courses that would otherwise give them higher chances of getting government scholarship.
“Some candidates don’t make choices on programmes such as Bachelor of Library and Information Science and Bachelor of science. In several instances, many of those candidates do not qualify for the highly competitive programmes but would qualify for the less competitive programmes if they had applied for them,” Mr Ssentongo said.
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