A section of Kibera residents have urged Education CS Fred Matiang’i to bring back the ranking of schools in national examinations.
They said on Wednesday that the ranking helps gauge students performance besides enabling teachers to know what to do to improve performance.
Matiang'i was moved to the Education docket following a Cabinet reshuffle announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday evening.
"Ranking enables a student to know how his/her competitors have performed. It also helps to achieve healthy competition therefore challenges the students and teachers to work even harder. It also helps a school know how it performed locally and nationally,” said Neddy Amunga.
‘’It was easy for us parents to know which school perform well and therefore advise our children which ones to choose especially the class eight students. But now we were advising them blindly because we don’t even know how the schools we want them to join had performed in the previous exams,” she added.
“Ranking was good because it helped students evaluate themselves. You should always evaluate yourself after every job to help you do better next time. I would like to ask the new CS for Education to embrace ranking so as to help our students engage in positive competition,” added Omar Nelson.