KCSE talk shouldn’t cloud key issues

In the never-ending Kenyan political drama, we are fighting over the 2017 KCSE results. Some seem to have got over the reforms championed by Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i and Kenya National Examinations Council Chairman George Magoha, to restore the credibility of our national examinations.

The issue seems to be that only 11.5 per cent of the candidates, that is 70,073 students, qualified to enter university by attaining an average of grade C+ and above. Their comments seem anchored on the view that the half-a-million students who did not qualify for university, essentially ‘failed,’ which I think is a very unfortunate position for national leaders to hold.