Less than a quarter of students in national school qualify for university

Alliance High School staff and teachers celebrate after the school produced 48 A's. [David Gichuru/Standard]

National schools produced less than a quarter of the candidates who qualified for admission to university, according to this year’s KCSE exam results.

Only 20,482 students who sat the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in national schools have qualified to join university. This accounts for a paltry16 per cent of the students who scored entry grades for university education.