Education PS Belio Kipsang has announced that KCPE and KPSEA candidates will receive their respective results before Christmas day.
While lauding all parties involved in ensuring a seamless three day examination exercise Kipsang asserted that the marking exercise starts immediately ahead of the set deadline.
Kipsang has also said the government will find ways in which those who did not sit exams because of unavoidable circumstances including insecurity will transit in the next stage of education before january
About 1.4 million candidates undertook their KCPE exams and about 1.2 million did the KPSEA exams and are all expected to successfully transition to the next education level in January next year
“We shall place our children in the secondary schools that they will go to before we go for Christmas. Our school calendar has come back to normal. We are opening schools on eighth of January and within the shortest time we want the others to join them in Form one,” he said.
“This year we had a minimal number of pregnancies, the empowerment we are giving to our parents is yielding fruit. We are happy that we are reducing this menace of teenage pregnancies,” he said.
Focus now shifts to the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations (KCSE) written examinations which start Monday, with the government assuring of a seamless operation to ensure minimal challenges in administering the exams.