Examination registration
On examination registration, the CS said the government has stepped up efforts to provide birth certificates to KCPE and KCSE examination candidates. This, he said, has seen the number of KCPE candidates without birth certificates by February this year reduce from 375,000 to 158,496.
“We are determined to stamp out cases of irregularities associated with the poor management of our national examinations so that results obtained from the Knec are valid and credible,” he said.
He also promised to fully implement the government’s 100 per cent transition to secondary schools police, which he said currently stands at 95.3 per cent. He also promised to ensure that the ministry accounts for the 4.7 per cent of the 2018 KCPE candidates yet to join secondary schools.
“The policy of admitting all KCPE candidates to secondary schools is a game changer in this country,” he said. The government, he said, was prepared to work round the clock to expand school infrastructure, provide enough textbooks and teachers to support increased enrollment. Magoha also promised to boost efforts by public schools to acquire title deeds for the land they sit on.
