No guarantee all top KCPE candidates get into national schools

Education CS George Magoha with a form four student sealing the last physics KCSE paper with them is Sister Mary Wachira during the end of the exams season at Precious Blood Girls, Riruta, Nairobi on April 1, 2022. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Candidates who scored 400 marks and above in the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination will not be guaranteed of Form One spaces in national schools, Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha said yesterday.

Prof Magoha said there will be a review of placement criteria that will also consider candidates from marginalised regions in the scramble for the available 30,000 slots in national schools.