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Widening KCSE gender gap must be bridged

By Standard Digital | Mar. 1, 2011

We congratulate all 2010 KCSE candidates who received their results yesterday. But the continuing decline in performance by girls in both KCPE and KCSE and the overall drop in mathematics and sciences across the genders is worrying.

The results released by the Minister for Education indicate the gap between the genders has widened. Only 36,000 female students scored the minimum university entry mark of C+, representing just 23.17 per cent of the total number of candidates.

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