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Purity Nkatha, a 32-year-old mother who got a B+ at Magumoni High School, Tharaka Nithi County. [Courtesy]
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Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) acting CEO Mercy Karogo. [David Njaaga, Standard]
Marking of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination scripts in some centres was temporarily stopped after examiners protested terms introduced by Kenya National Examinations Council.
The Standard established that the teachers objected to a new rule by Knec that reviewed an advance payment of about Sh20,000, often given to the teachers before they exit marking centres.
The teachers also declined another proposal by Knec to reduce the advance payment by half.
The examiners also wanted the transport reimbursement increased, saying the cost of travel went up due to the Covid-19 travel restrictions.
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Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha and Knec chief executive Mercy Karogo during the release of the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination results at Mitihani House in Nairobi on April 15, 2021. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NMG
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Simple arithmetic would show that for a multiple choice exam your result cannot be in odd numbers. Secondly, when one analyses the results of successive results one notices a pattern where for some subject the highest score defies logic or expectation.
The dust has now settled on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam results released recently by Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha. Contrary to fears that the public had about the impact of the pandemic on learning across the country, the results demonstrated the resilience of the pupils and all those who worked to support them, ranging from their parents, teachers and the larg
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Wiyumiririe IDP camp chairman Peter Kariuki (second left) during a past protest march. [James Munyeki]
The 1,557 families the government allocated land at Wiyumiririe in Laikipia East fear losing the properties as they cannot prove ownership.
The properties lack green cards because the titling process is yet to be completed years down the line.
A green card is a document that holds the original records of all transactions relating to a piece of land. A green card serves as a reference document for a given piece of land. Without a green card, one cannot claim to be the legal owner of a property, even if they have a title deed.
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