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Absentee teachers to blame for poor results

Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i touched a taboo subject while releasing the 2015 KCPE examination results: Teacher absenteeism.

This followed revelations that while the mean score among private school candidates improved slightly from 229.94 in 2014 to 230.14 in 2015, that of candidates in public schools went down from a mean score of 187.58 in 2014 to 180.87 in 2015.

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