The Ministry of Education was on Wednesday criticised after releasing the 2017 KCSE results barely a month after the exams were concluded.
Teachers through their unions noted that the results released by Education CS Fred Matiang'i were not legit adding that most students failed because of the hurried marking.
The unions called for an audit of the 2017 KCSE results released by the CS at the Nairobi School yesterday.
[caption caption="CS Matiang'i briefing President Uhuru Kenyatta before release of 2017 KCSE results"]
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Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Secretary-General Akelo Misori noted that the results were the worst and most irregular in Kenyan history.
“We cannot hurry to release results without a proper audit and celebrate the mass failure of students. The exam results have been released when other papers are still being marked,” Mr Misori told the Nation.
According to the KUPPET boss, Dr Matiang'i hurriedly released the results to make people believe that he was working.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion on his part noted that with such results there would be no 100 percent transition as the government was planning.
“There seems to be a deliberate effort to force more students to join tertiary institutions.
“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.
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"Transition to universities should be improving, it is genocide for our children,” Sossion was quoted by the Nation.
