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Why Dr Matiang’i should not be celebrated

Celebrating KCSE results: Concerns being raised about the future of candidates who have not qualified for university entrance.

The 2017 KCSE Results have just been released, and of 615,000 teenagers who sat, only 70,000 qualified to join University. This is a success rate of 11 percent; a failure rate of 89percent. If Dr Matiang’i was a Minister for Education in any European Country, together with entire KNEC officials, they would have resigned.

No Country worth its name gets a failure rate of 89 percent. There is nothing to be proud about. Such a failure rate is confirmation of an education system that has wholly failed and demands criminal, political and moral responsibility.

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