Secondary school teachers from Kericho County on Friday protested against the imminent Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education (KCSE) exam release that is scheduled for the second week of January 2024.
The exam release date by the Ministry of Education was announced by Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu after dismissing reports that the exam would be released before Christmas.
The teachers held protests in the streets of Kericho town asking the ministry to avoid early release of results citing they will witness massive anomalies as in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).
''We want the right results we do not want hurried release, let them take their time and analyze and release the correct results such that if a student assorted a C it should be a C,'' Mary Rotich who leads the Kericho KUPPET branch resounded.
Led by the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) the teachers warned Machogu that the hurried release of the results would see a repetition of anomalies as witnessed in KCPE results.
This comes after a day the CS announced the release of the results while assuring that compilation, verification, and validation of scores is currently ongoing as they plan for a January release.
In his recent release of the KCPE exam, the results were marred by massive anomalies and acknowledged that there were errors where some schools recorded the same mark for all subjects in one subject.
The opposition side led by Raila Odinga accused the Ministry of putting students' futures at stake over what he called massive irregularities in the whole process.
Their calls have followed consistent calls to review the Junior Secondary Schools citing there is no proper framework that will work for students and teachers under the new curriculum.
Consequently, the teachers cited that teachers were forced into teaching subjects which are not their speciality therefore making it hard for them to transition.
Over 900,000 students are expecting their results in early January 2024 after KCPE students who were the last to sit the exam received theirs on November 23.
