Education CS Fred Matiang'i and KNUT secretary general Wilson Sossion [thester.co.ke]
Teachers’ unions on Wednesday dismissed this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination (KCSE ) results as a fraud that had condemned students to mass failure.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet), which were sidelined by Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i during the release of the results at Nairobi School, called for a total overhaul of the grading system.
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,” Mr Misori alleged.
He said Dr Matiang’i hurriedly released the results in order to be seen to be working.
His Knut counterpart Wilson 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.
“There seems to be a deliberate effort to force more students to join tertiary institutions,” Mr Sossion, who asked where more than 300,000 students who did not qualify for university will go, said.