Education policy for N. Eastern proposed

Formulating a special education policy that addresses challenges in North Eastern Province and other frontier districts is the key to improving the region’s perennial poor performance in national examinations, a national women’s leader has said.

Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation national chairperson Mrs Rukia Subow said the poor showing by schools should be a wake up call to the government.

In a telephone interview with the Nation on Friday, Mrs Subow urged the government to build more boarding primary and secondary schools in the region to enable more children who lead a nomadic lifestyle to attend school.

What went wrong?

In Mombasa, the parents of candidates whose exam results were cancelled want the schools investigated. Ms Jane Shayo, a parent of a St John’s Frere Academy pupil whose English results were cancelled, asked the government to move with speed and conclude the matter before Form One selection begins next week.

“Why should my child’s English results be nullified? What wrong did she commit? Somebody must answer these question,” she said. Of the school’s 19 candidates, only two got their English results.

Colluded

According to a letter from Knec, the students had colluded during the examination last year. However, different directors of the affected schools refuted these allegations, wondering how the pupils colluded when the council’s exam supervisors and invigilators were there.

Parent’s Hope Academy director Juba Kibwana challenged Knec to come clean on the issue because candidates whose results were cancellation were suffering. Mombasa municipality education officer Francis Tsuma said that the results of nine schools in the area were cancelled.

Reported by Galgalo Bocha, Anthony Kitimo and Mwakera Mwajefa