Poor learning foundations manifest in KCSE results

Form one students and their parents during the admission process at Nakuru Girls High School. (Harun Wathari, Standard).

With about one million students joining Form One, the country has made significant progress in access to secondary education and achieving the 100 per cent transition rate. 

What is worrying, however, is that about 80 per cent of those students will be concentrated in resource-poor secondary schools that, for decades, have been struggling to improve academic achievement.