Kiambu Town MP Jude Njomo has urged candidates who failed to attain C+ and above in the recently released 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results to enroll for technical and specialized courses being offered in polytechnics across the country.
“We want to encourage candidates who scored lower grades in the recently released KCSE to enroll for technical courses,” he said on Monday during a briefing with journalists at Kiambu town.
Njomo urged the national and county government to help students who scored poor grades enroll for courses in polytechnics.
“We should stop condemning poor performers and instead help them enroll in polytechnics and gain specialized and technical skills,” he said.
The lawmaker lauded Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i for the reforms introduced in the education sector.
“CS Matiang’i has done well in reforming and bringing sanity in the education sector and deserves accolades,” he said.
Only 88,929 out of the 577, 253 candidates who sat for 2016 KCSE scored C+ and above with only 141 candidates scoring straight As, 4645 scoring A- and 10975 candidates scoring B+.