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2020 form one reporting deadline extended by one week

The Ministry of Education has extended the 2020 form one admission deadline by one week. Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang in a circular to regional and county directors of Education dated January 17, has said the exercise will be extended to ensure that all the 2019 KCPE candidates transit to secondary school.

The exercise that was initially to end on Friday January 17, 2020 will now be expected to come to a completion on Friday January 24, 2020. “In order to ensure that no learner is left behind, the Ministry has made a decision to extend the reporting deadline by seven (7) days. The last reporting day therefore shall be 24th January and not 17th January, 2020 as earlier mentioned,” says Dr. Kipsang.

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Bio-metric Capture of Learners

This will be a big relief for most parents who are still struggling to raise the required school fees and other personal effects for their kids.

The PS has at the same time told schools to capture all the learners on the National Education Management Information System, Nemis. “Schools should use the extension to trace their learners who have not reported and at the same time capture all reported learners in NEMIS,” directs Dr Kipsang.

This comes after reports showed that most schools had abandoned the online registration process due to technical hitches. The system has been reportedly facing serious downtime due to the large number of requests.

By Thursday, January 16, 2020, ony twenty percent of the learners had been captured on Nemis.

Primary school head teachers have also been directed to use their 2019 candidates’ list to ensure that they have been placed in secondary schools. “They (Head Teachers) should report any child who is out of school for any reason to their respective Sub-county Directors (and) National Government Administrative Officers,” adds the PS.

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Starehe Boys Centre Fire outbreak: Latest news

A fire outbreak has occurred at Starehe Boys Centre workshop and study block. Acting Director Josphat Mwaura has confirmed the sad incident. No casualties have been reported. Most students had gone home for the midterm break. Cause of fire yet to be established.

The Kenya Red Cross team is on location;

 

2019 KCPE results to be released today

The 2019 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, KCPE, exam results will be announced any time from now; today. Top Government officials have gathered at the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, offices in readiness for the results release.

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Results Analysis and Release

After marking is done, the next step is to collate and analyze the students’ scores. Once computation is over, the results are presented to the Education Cabinet Secretary who first briefs the President before releasing the results to the public in a televised event.

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Checking Results

Candidates who sat for the exam can check their results using three ways:

  • Using  KNEC SMS code 20076
  • Using an online KNEC portal
  • Visiting respective school 

CHECKING KCSE 2019 RESULTS USING SMS CODE 20076

This is the most effective and fastest way of checking for the results. To get KCSE results 2019 by SMS a candidate is required to send an SMS with your Index Number to 20076. The service is viable for all the three network providers in the country Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom networks.

The cost of each SMS is Sh.25.

NB: Candidates must wait for official release of the results before sending an SMS.

Standoff as KCSE examiners down tools over low pay from KNEC

The marking exercise for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, has been thrown into jeopardy after examiners for one of the papers downed tools. The examiners for Businness Studies Paper 2 is yet to kick off at Machakos girls after examiners downed their tools citing poor pay. They have hardly touched any paper despite the fact they reported to the Centre over the weekend.

Attempts by the Kenya National Examinations Council boss Dr. Mercy Karogo to calm the situation were met by spirited resistance from the examiners. The angry examiners booed her off the stage when she tried to address them today.

The KNEC boss was reportedly holed up in tensed meeting on Monday evening with senior examiners and her junior Secretariat staff (at the marking centre) in a bid to avert the crisis. This standoff is threatening to delay the release of this year’s KCSE results.

More details to follow…….