Not end of the road for those who missed varsity places

Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed recently released the list of the placement of former high school students to universities. And, in what her predecessor termed “cleaning the education system,” more than half of the students had flopped their KCPE exams and were, therefore, not absorbed into any university.

In fact, the number of those who qualified was so low that some universities received five students or none. This can only mean the majority who sat last year’s KCPE are staring at other options. That got me thinking; is university education really that important?