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THE STANDARD EDUCATION Form One students endure a chilly morning and long lines to be admitted at Kapsabet Boys. [Edward Kosut, Standard] A major crisis is looming as secondary schools struggle to accommodate the high number of students in order to meet the government’s 100 per cent primary to secondary transition policy. Other pupils in the countryside were yesterday staring at the possibility of failing to join secondary school due to lack of fees as parents face hard economic times. In Nyanza and Western, most schools reported high turn-out of Form One students. For instance, Maseno Sch...

Maseno School rugby students (left) in action during past schools games. [Washington Onyango, The Standard] Generally, Maseno School topped Kisumu County with a mean of 9.58 points with 448 students out of 462 scoring direct to university mean grade of C+ and above. 24 students scored A (plains) and 121 students got A-(minus). Five time national rugby 7s champions Maseno School had just qualified for the Nyanza Regional Secondary School Games when the coronavirus pandemic struck, blowing away the schools dream of lifting the 2020 Kenya National Secondary School rugby 7s and 15s title. Take...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Top schools in Nyanza posted impressive results in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. The results released yesterday by Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha put Maranda High, Agoro Sare, Riokindo and St Joseph Rapogi in the limelight over their good performance. Agoro Sare in Homa Bay County produced the second-best student nationally, Allan Udoma, while Maranda had the eighth and fourteenth in Henry Madaga and Kiprono Howard, respectively.  Maranda, in Siaya, topped Nyanza schools with a mean score of 9.7, which was an improvement ...