Education CS Fred Matiangi releases 2015 KCSE Results
3rd March, 2016
Nairobi: Results for 5,101 candidates who sat the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination have been cancelled over exam irregularities. While releasing the results, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i decried the high numbers, saying the rate of irregularities is 70 per cent higher than the previous year’s. Matiang’i said, however, the entire results in the affected examination centres will not be cancelled in revised rules which will see the individual candidates bear the brunt. The irregularities took place in 305 centres country wide. Only ISiolo County did not record any cases of exam irregularities, with the highest numbers being experienced in Nairobi, Makueni and Meru Counties affecting 151, 382 and 160 candidates respectively. “A secretariat will be set up at the Education Ministry to guide candidates whose results have been cancelled,” said Matiang’i. The secretariat will be open from 8am to 5pm every day and the team will explain to the candida