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State must do more to ensure 100pc transition

Form One students during their admission to Kakamega High School last week. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

As part of efforts to ensure that all candidates who sat KCPE examinations last year transition to Form One, the government should take a long, hard look at the problems some pupils could be facing at home.

The admission of students was slated to take place between January 13 and 17. However, the Ministry of Education released a circular stating that in order to ensure that no learner is left behind, the reporting deadline had been extended by seven days to this Friday.

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