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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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