Just check the schools that have produced the top 10 students in KCPE and you will realise that the more things change in Kenya, the more they remain the same. How come even that this year has been occasioned by a sudden unexpected improvement? Were the kids this year so bright compared to the previous two years? Or was the exam too easy for the candidates?
Our education system is poop.
Interesting ! the general, preparation, setting , administering, has to my view improved. I thinking the kcpe cadidates Must in future have access to sample knec papers during preparation early January. I also positively acknowledge the way the president and hi entire team came in . To fight exam cheating we must do it as a nation,the credibility of these national education sector must be safeguarded.
We should emphasize on making sure students are well prepared to transition to the next phase, than putting too much emphasis on National exams, especially at primary school level.
Even if possible scrap of Kcpe, and let students join the local secondary school. Kids in witethie and ndarugu should join mangu high school without a fuse.
Why do we still have this colonial grading of schools 60 yrs after independence ? By now all secondary schools should be on the same levels, in terms of infrastructure and resources dedicated to them.
True. Ranking should be made a crime punishable by jailing. And going to a certain high school should not be pegged on your grades in primary school.
To give credit where it’s due, the people in-charge this time round did well to help improve the credibility of the exams. However, I think national exams are way too overhyped, making other kids feel less special than others based on their performance on a very non-specific activity. Education should be geared at helping identify what the kids are individually good at and nurturing that from an early age, while teaching them the basic forms of literacy that would help them navigate the world.
That is, shifting away from exams oriented system to a competency based system.
The problem is not the exam, the problem is the innate desire/determination of any amoral intelligent being to take advantage of any situation and cheat where necessary. I’m not saying that cheating is alright, all I’m saying is that artificial intelligent systems have evolved to cheat in games (see long read
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/610393/ai-can-beat-us-at-games-but-sometimes-thats-by-cheating/ ). Sembuse binadamu?
Parents were facilitating cheating by financing the fraud that was exam cheating. Do you think those same corrupt parents won’t find a way to game the competency based system? If you think they won’t succeed tell me how a corrupt parent will fail to get his son graded the best throughout primary school. The system is as good as the common denominator, the parent.
Cheating occurs during the marking. Results lasma zikuwe adjusted by a certain factor and for some of these so-called top schools, they have a larger factor than the rest. What happened during the Matiangi years was walitoa factor hence the drop. Now imerudi. Ngoja sasa KCSE ndio mtaona maajabu ya shule moja kukuwa na A 150. Tutafute pesa tupeleke watoto wetu IGCSE.
my kid will go to fancy ass schools with strange names…kama West Nairobi School, ama White Cottage…ama akuwe homeschooled…if by bad luck nijipate nimekwama hapa
The new curriculum in primary , secondary and tertiary institutions will take care of these issues in education sector.
The worthy changes and new curriculum in education sector was spearheaded by an individual. The moment Matiangi left the education ministry everybody felt the change.
Do you expect the new busy body to see it to completion as it wae planned?
God save us.