KENYA: Thirty-nine candidates from Faith Academy in Nairobi’s Huruma area will miss this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations as they were not registered with the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec). On Wednesday, the students and their parents marched to Knec offices where they received another rude shock; Knec had also deregistered their school. “We do not know what to do know because we have been told we cannot take our exams this year. This is so unfair because we have been preparing for the exams since January,” cried out one of the students. According to Ken Oucha, a parent, the school principal, Pastor Evans Kariuki, went on to collect registration fees knowing full well that the school had issues with Knec. Apparently, the school owed Knec examinations arrears of up to Sh400,000, which the principal was supposed to clear before March 31 this year – the registration deadline. Oucha said the principal had been avoiding a meeting with them since the issue came to light. “We want to know the fate of our students, whether or not they are going to sit the examinations and what the principal did with the money we paid for our children to be registered,” he said. The parents also accused the principal of keeping the students in the dark until the last minute. The students and their guardians marched to the district education offices before being referred to Knec offices. However, Kariuki said officials from the examinations body had assured him that the school would be registered once he made the pending payments from the previous year. Court’s verdict “Knec went on to bar the school from the examinations list without informing me even after we agreed that they would give me time to clear the arrears.”
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:18:46 +0000
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