President William Ruto on Monday, January 8, ordered a probe into the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).
This was after he was briefed by the Education Cabinet Secretary that 3,000 students who registered for the 2023 KCSE did not sit for the exams.
President Ruto sought to know why the candidates failed to sit for the national examinations.
The timeframe when the investigating committee will present its findings to the President was however, not indicated.
Additionally, the President called on the Ministry of Education to crack down on students and teachers taking part in exam cheating.
The briefing was done at the Eldoret State Lodge, Uasin Gishu County, moments before the release of the KCSE results.
Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) CEO David Njengere remarked that measures had been put in place to prevent the leaking of the 2023 KCSE exams before the tests were administered.
"The double collection policy was made possible through mapping of all centres and aligning them to collection points close to them for convenience. The policy helped eliminate early exposure of second session papers; a practice that had been a menace since 2016," Njengere stated.
Speaking during the release of the 2023 KCSE results, Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang urged all headteachers to make sure students were registered through the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS).
"This applies to all public and private schools in the country," the PS stated.
He added that the cases of students not sitting for KCSE exams could be a case of not adhering to NEMIS regulations set by the Ministry of Education.
Kipsang remarked that there was a possibility some of the 3,000 students who did not sit for the exams were not there to start with.
He alluded that there could be rogue elements in the education sector who were registering non-existent students to benefit from the government capitation program.
