End of 8-4-4 in primary school as 1.2 million join junior secondary

Minister of Education Peter Oloo Aringo announcing the 1987 KCPE results at Lenana High School. [File, Standard]

After 39 years, the 8-44 system of education, once perceived as the solution for Kenya's skills needs by employers, was interred.

Consequently, none of the 1,406,557 candidates who sat the last Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) will have a chance to repeat, even if they want to better their grades.