A few hours after assuring that no school would be punished “wholesale” for candidates found to have cheated in the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i revealed that there are eight schools which have no results to show after the results of all their candidates were cancelled.
The schools are: Nkumari Secondary School in Meru County, Propoi Girls and Parua Mixed Day and Boarding in West Pokot, Eisero Girls in Nandi, Kitengela Boys High School, Seka Mixed and Waondo Secondary School in Homa Bay and St Paul Omonayo in Nyamira.
Overview
The 2015 KCSE exams had the highest ever recorded number of cheats who were found out at 5,101 candidates compared to 2,975 in 2014; a 70 percent increase.
One hundred and seventy one persons have been arrested and charged in connection with the cheating; 34 of whom are teachers.
“But even in those cases, whether it is for example Kitengela Boys High School which had 76 candidates and all the 76 candidates were involved in irregularities, all those cases were reviewed individual by individual and each one of those 76 students of Kitengela Boys can turn up at the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) and they will be shown what happened to their results.”
The 2015 KCSE exams had the highest ever recorded number of cheats who were found out at 5,101 candidates compared to 2,975 in 2014; a 70 percent increase.
One hundred and seventy one persons have been arrested and charged in connection with the cheating; 34 of whom are teachers.
