How Kenya's education impoverishes families

Beneath the veneer of celebration by schools and candidates who did well in the two main exams of 2014, rage rivers of tears. If you listen carefully, you will hear the cries of the poor children; estimated at 274,000, who scored the indistinctive C– and below in last year’s Form Four exams.

For them, a door has shut and unless their parents have deep pockets to bankroll bridging courses and finally get them onto the parallel degree programmes, the future is indeed bleak. But it is not just their cries that should stir our collective conscience, but the fact that education, being the biggest investment parents make, is a contributor to the circle of poverty that is spreading across the country like wild fire. Why?