Secondary school heads largely drawn from Kakamega County have dismissed calls by the teachers' union to have the 2016 national examinations released by Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i last year audited.
The heads led by County Secondary School Heads Association chairman Godfrey Owori lauded Matiang'i for overseeing credible examinations and bringing about education reforms that looks to restore the credibility of the national examinations in the country.
“I know there are cartels at the Kenya National Examination Council used to manipulate results in favour of certain schools at a fee. They are now fighting back through other institutions to disparage the credibility of the exercise,” Owori said on Wednesday.
Owori further challenged Matiang'i to extend the education reforms to institutions of higher learning, noting that the universities are churning out half-baked graduates.
“Many of the graduates are not able to perform on the job because they were beneficiaries of leaked exams with fake grades and were admitted for courses they did not deserve,” he said.
“Many students graduate from the universities as engineers and doctors but we end up getting expatriates from China and India doing the jobs because our graduates didn’t qualify," added the St Peter’s High School Mumias principal.