Selection Of Form One Students Begins

Nearly 200,000 pupils who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations last year are expected to be locked out from joining secondary schools due to limited vacancies.

The government earlier issued a directive that the top two candidates of both genders from either private or public schools be automatically accorded places in national schools.

The government directive will see pupils from public schools loose out because private schools performed better in the exams.

More than 800,000 candidates sat the national examinations in November.

Education Principal Secretary Dr. Belio Kipsang last year said that admission to the national schools will still be based on quotas that favoured public schools.

“We have not changed the rules,” Kipsang said of the rule, which allows more candidates from the public schools that register a majority of candidates to take the lion’s share of places in the elite schools.

By Beth Nyaga

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