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Candidacy in KCSE increases by 8 per cent

NAIROBI: The free primary and secondary education programme initiated during President Mwai Kibaki's administration is responsible for the high number of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education candidates who sat the exam last year.

The two educational programmes which came into effect in 2003 and 2011 saw the number of candidates rise from 446,696 in 2013 to 483,630 in 2014.

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