The 2017 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results could be canceled over what Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion termed as irregularities in the marking of the exam papers.
Speaking to Kenyans.co.ke, Mr Sossion stated that the results needed to be audited as the marking process fell below the international standards of measurement and evaluation.
"KNEC must cancel the KCSE results because they were not taken through the normative regulation system. The CS (referring to Education CS Fred Matiang'i) should not have released the results because you can not awards marks on the raw marks," he stated.
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He cited a high failure rate adding that over 90 percent of the students who sat for the national examination failed to qualify for University slots.
“The results are not credible at all, they are irregular and the most disastrous exam in the Kenya history, and do not meet the international standards of measurements and evaluation. The results have destroyed the future of many children and hopes of many families and they are bound to destroy our public universities.
“It is shameful as a nation that we are unable to supply the required 95,000 students as per existing vacancies in our universities, we can only supply 70,000. What happens with the remaining 25,000 available spaces, are all over 600,000 candidates total zombies?" read a statement released by the KNUT Secretary-General on Thursday.
Mr Sossion further told Kenyans.co.ke that KNEC lacked credibility adding that it did not have a substantive Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
"The Chairman George Magoha and CS Matiang'i are running the show and yet they don't know much about running education in the country," he explained.
Earlier on Thursday, Teachers through their unions noted that the results released by the Education CS were not legit adding that most students failed because of the hurried marking.
Meanwhile, Activist Okiya Omtatah has filed a case seeking to compel KNEC to release certified copies of the marked answer sheets of each candidate who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education or the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations this year.
[caption caption="CS Matiang'i briefing President Uhuru Kenyatta before release of 2017 KCSE results"]
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