Cabinet Secretary for Education Fred Matiang'i. [Photo|Mygov.go.ke]
Private Schools in Migori County have welcomed the move by the cabinet secretary for education Fred Matiang’i for putting the same fate of both the public and private schools students on form one selection.
The Kenya Relief Academy headmaster Fredrick Otieno said the initiative will give the parents and teachers from private schools the zeal to prepare the students to join national schools as opposed to previous years when public students were preferred first for national schools slots.
He said Matiang’i decision will allow healthy competition in both private and public schools.
Meanwhile, girls took the lead in most schools during 2017 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education in Migori County.
The manager of Momokoro Academy in Kuria West Sub County Tobias Moherai said that the top student Marion Nyagetendi Kiboye scored 417 marks and led both in the school and the county at large.
The manager said that the top student was followed in the second position by his cousin Ian Matiku who scored 413 marks in the same school.
“I thank the cabinet secretary for education Dr Fred Matiangi for levelling the ground for both private and public schools students joining form one,” said Moherai.
The manager said that the school had registered 29 students and six of them got 400 marks and above with girls shining and he is sure they will get good secondary schools.
The school had a mean score of 382 an improvement from the last year's mean score of 340 in the same school.
At Kehancha Progressive in Kuria West, the best student Violet Maroa got 414 out of 500 marks. The school director Timothy Zentil said that the best student got 414 and was closely followed by Thomas Muniko who got 411 marks.