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The 2020 national examination was unique to the fact that it took place in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, which posed a great challenge to the Education Ministry. The Standard reported that some examiners were unable to show up for the marking exercise due to the ongoing restriction of movement in the country. This was as a result of the partial lockdown of some counties, while others decided not to turn up due to fears of the disease. "When the Covid-19 pandemic befell the country in March 2020, the education sector was one that got completely disoriented," Magoha said at Mtihani Hous...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha is set to release the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination (KCPE) exam results any time now. The results will be released at 2.00pm at Mtihani House, along Dennis Pritt road, Nairobi. Magoha The exam, which is last year’s (2020) paper began on March 22- 24. KEEP READING The 2020 national examination was unique to the fact that it took place in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, which posed a great challenge to the Education Ministry. The Standard reported that some examiners were unable to show up for the marking e...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Mitchelle Makungu, a girl who survived Kakamega primary school's stampede, celebrates with teachers outside the school after scoring 408 marks in the KCPE exams. [Mumo Munuve, Standard] Kakamega Primary School has emerged among the top-performing schools in last year's KCPE examinations. It is among the best public schools in Kenya despite a stampede in February 2020 which left 15 pupils dead and scores injured. Before the school community could recover from the tragedy, the first case of Covid-19 was announced in Kenya in March and the government closed all learning in...

THE STANDARD KENYA Kibet at Kerio View. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard] The hanging valleys of Kerio Escarpment give visitors a gorgeous view of the scenic Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Iten, a small town famed as the country’s most preferred athletics training base, has in recent years earned another distinction. It is the home of paragliding. When paragliders from Europe and America are in the skies from October to March every year, they enjoy the rocky and picturesque Kerio Valley as well as the meandering Kerio River and Kapnarok ox-bow lake. For years, the extreme sport had been a preserve...

Mama boys: The ups and downs of single mothers and their sons Son hugging his mum outdoor. Kenyan men, as surveys have shown, prefer single mothers with girls. A mum and her daughter have a ‘girl thing’ and mentoring her into a woman and how to deal with men is somewhat easy. The same is not the case with raising boys in homes without a father figure. Women have it rough when sons reach puberty. They will be at sea on how to make men out of boys who have grown clutching their petticoats. Should a single mother be too tough on boys or just play along like an elder sister? Getting a middle ...