Uasin Gishu County Director of Education Nicodemus Anyang in Eldoret on January 11, 2018. [Photo/Joe Khisa]
A ministry of Education official has dismissed fears that the country is staring at a crisis following mass failures recorded among candidates who sat for the 2017 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.
There have been concerns over more than half of the candidates registering grades that cannot allow them to proceed to institutions of higher learning.
But speaking in Eldoret town on Thursday, Uasin Gishu county director of education Nicodemus Anyang said that notion was misguided.
He noted that the country has sufficient technical and vocational training institutions capable of absorbing all the students.
"It's not true that our education system is facing a crisis after a high number of students failed to get grades to enable the join universities," noted Mr. Anyang.
"I believe those who scored below C+ (plus) still have a chance to proceed to institutions of higher learning as the government as we now have technical and vocational training institutions in almost all of the 290 constituencies across the country," he added.
According to the 2017 KCSE results, only 70,073 candidates out of the 610,501who sat for the examinations obtained grades C+ and above, which is the minimum entry point to university.