Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha announced on Wednesday morning that the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results 2020 will be released by May 10.
The CS declared the completion of the examinations as 99.9 percent success as he spoke at the Nairobi School.
According to him, 752,891 students sat for their exams after months of uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Congratulating them, Magoha touched on the issue of exam irregularities, saying that in a few centers across the country all attempts to expose examination papers were thwarted in a timely manner.
He said, "We experienced a number of cases where examination officials attempted to open the papers with the intention of exposing them to candidates before the actual examinations started. We thwarted these efforts in a few centres countrywide, some of which I released to you during my weekly briefs.”
27 officials were stripped of their various responsibilities as centre administrators, supervisors, or invigilators, following allegations of violating examination administration laws.
The names of the officials will be forwarded to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for disciplinary action by the Ministry of Education.
37 civilians, including three university students, were arrested for attempting to commit examination fraud and 53 cellphones seized from students around the country.
The CS added, “As we speak, security agencies are busy conducting thorough forensic investigations to find out if the gadgets were used to aid any form of cheating.”
No comments:
Post a Comment