Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i speaks at Nairobi School on December 20, 2017 during the release of 2017 KCSE results. [Photo/NMG]Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary general Wilson Sossion has said that there seem to be a deliberate effort to force more students to join tertiary institutions.This he says could be the reason why teachers' unions were sidelined during the release of 2017 KCSE results.“Reduction in the number of students joining universities is an indicator of disaster. Something is wrong, and that is why he (Matiang’i) does not want unions at all," Sossion told Daily Nation on Wednesday."Where will more than 300,000 students who did not qualify for university go to. Transition to universities should be improving, it is genocide for our children,” he added.Sossion said the government was talking about a 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary and wondered why it was limiting transition from secondary to university.On the other hand, Kuppet Secretary-General Akelo Misori termed the results the most irregular and disastrous in the Kenyan examinations history.“We cannot hurry to release results without a proper audit and celebrate mass failure of students. The exam results have been released when other papers are still being marked,” Misori alleged.He said Dr Matiang’i hurriedly released the results in order to be seen to be working.The unions dismissed the results as a fraud that had condemned students to mass failure while calling for a total overhaul of the grading system.The release of the results caught many unaware as county directors and some heads of schools thought they had been invited for an ordinary meeting at Jogoo House, according to the Nation.

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