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Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba and Principal Secretary Julius Bitok during the release of KJSEA results. [File, Standard][
Parents are locked in an intense scramble for places in top senior secondary schools as the seven-day placement transfer window closes, exposing mounting strain in the new, highly centralised placement system.
Thousands of parents and learners are still seeking changes to their initial placements, with pressure overwhelmingly concentrated on about 10 elite national schools that attracted tens of thousands of applications for only a few hundred available slots.
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