Candidates who sat for their Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education (KCSE) in 2016, will from 2017 be assigned unique personal identification numbers to track their academic progress.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta asked the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) to immediately stop using index numbers as it has always been, and instead ensure all registered examination candidates have Unique Personal Identifiers (UPIs) in student registration numbers (SRNs)

Students would use the personal identification numbers throughout their school life, to help manage data in the education sector.

Uhuru issued the directive after receiving a comprehensive report on the 2016 KCSE examination from the Ministry of Education and Knec officials before the results were released in at Shimo La Tewa School, Mombasa, December 29.

Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i released the results, where only 141 candidates got A's.