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Teachers should not pass the buck in exams failure

The annual secondary school principals’ conference ended in Mombasa on Friday and critical issues were discussed.

Top on the agenda was reforms in the education system to make it more relevant to market needs. Revelations that close to 600,000 students have scored D+ and below in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in the past four years were shocking. It means that the graduates – if they can be called that – leave barely literate and numerate after four years in high school.

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