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Agony Over Irregularities in Kisii Districts
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 July 2007 00:43
The area district education officer, Mr James Ochieng, said that even before the 2004 KCSE results revealed massive irregularities in key schools in the district, his office had recommend massive transfers of teachers heading schools within their home locations.
Mr Ochieng said that in order to effectively and conclusively tackle the rising incidents of examination irregularities and poor academic performance in the district, it was untenable to continue sustaining the practice of posting "sons and daughters of the soil" to schools in their home areas.
He said the trend was creating a conflict of interest.
Echoing the DEO's sentiments, civic leaders in Nyamira District early in the week asked the ministry of education to carry out transfers of head teachers managing schools in their home areas as one of the remedial measures for curbing examination cheating in the three Gucha, Nyamira and Kisii districts.
Parents of the 197 Kisii school candidates whose KCSE results were cancelled on Friday resolved to appeal, but at the same time register for this year's examinations.
"If we lose in the appeals, it may be too late to register alongside the current examination class. So we are going for the double," they resolved during a meeting with school principal Patrick Monyenye.
The parents demanded that a new team of examiners be hired to remark the papers. "If the papers are taken back to the same examiners who accused us of cheating they may want to maintain the same verdict and prove the point but if a new group is hired, obviously we will accept their outcome," said one of the students.
Nyanza PC Aggrey Mudinyu termed the irregularities an embarrassment to the region.
He urged leaders to join hands in stamping out the vice. Speaking at a baraza at Mosocho, the PC said that the provincial education committee would form a team to probe the dwindling performance of leading schools in the province.
