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Grade 7 learners will not move to high school, new CBC report says

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President William Ruto and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua during the Presentation of Interim Report of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform at State House. [Jonah Mwangi]

After six years of studying under a new education curriculum, three years of school-based assessments, and another three days of rigorous Grade Six national examinations, it has been decided that junior secondary learners will remain in primary schools.

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