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Kisii Schools Demand Probe Into Poor KCPE Results

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Published on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 12:56

THE Kenya National Examination Council was yesterday asked to launch a probe into exam irregularities in last year's KCPE examination.

The Kenya Primary Schools Heads Association asked the exam council to also probe the origin of the material a candidate was caught with.

Kepsha officials from Kisii and Nyamira counties said that they had conducted investigations and established that there was no tempering with the stores in which exam papers had been stored.

Officials led by Kisii county chairman Samson Mokwanga wondered why cancellations occurred in 41 centres, 19 in Kisii and 22 in Nyamira.

Addressing the press in Kisii Town, Mokwanga said that the outcome of assessment tests administered in both counties marched with the results saying that many of the institutions did well even though others dropped.

"We are dismayed with the dismal performance in our public and private schools. we have since proposed to district education boards to re-evaluate the capability the of the institutions and close down non performing ones," he said.

The chairman asked Knec not to penalise teachers whose institutions were affected because they never took part in the supervision and invigilation of the examinations.

Flanked by his Nyamira counterpart, Robert Misiani, Makwanga blamed South Mugirango MP Manson Nyamweya for advocating massive transfer of teachers in order to better the standards in his constituency.

He reminded the legislator that improvement of standards required joint efforts from all stakeholders including political good will saying transfers will never address the problems.

They told Nyamweya to desist from inciting people against teachers.

Last week Nyamweya urged the ministry of education to transfer teachers whose schools performed dismally in the examination.