Less than four percent of students who sat last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam have qualified to join universities in Isiolo County.
Schools in the county posted some of the poorest results after the Ministry of Education released the exams in December 2018.
Only 39 out of 1,293 students managed to score a mean grade of C+ and above with both the public and private secondary schools performing poorly.
Only two students scored a B (plain), 12 had B-, 25 scored C+ while 503 students scored D- and there were 139 Es.
What’s even shocking is that students from last year performed better compared to 2017 where only 26 out of 1,259 students managed to score C+ and above.
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) withheld results of some of the schools in the county and only 31 out of 36 secondary schools, both public and private, received their results.
Isiolo South MP Abdi Koropu Tepo attributed to lack of facilities and teachers being overstaffed to the poor performance.
Mr Tepo further said that in rural areas, there is a poor pre-primary foundation and the institutions lack the necessary infrastructure to allow the schools to perform like other schools.
The MP, however, said that they have engaged the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to convene a meeting with stakeholders on the need to invest and improve education in the county.
“We have engaged the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and we have agreed to convene a stakeholders’ meeting to address the poor education standards. The county government has tried through streamlining the early childhood development education but there is still poor foundation from pre-primary which replicates during the transition to secondary level,” he said as quoted by nation.co.ke.