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    "content": "cheated, therefore, the examination results are cancelled.” Hence students need to repeat the same class. It is a burden to parents. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. Obure for bringing this amendment. We have a Cabinet Secretary who is willing to transform the education sector. He has quietly and without notice visited schools. This is very important because that is when you can find out whether students are alone; do we have teachers in school? Where have we reached in the syllabus? Days are gone when the syllabus was concluded by second term and revision started for the examinations. Nowadays, many schools go even up to third term without completing their syllabus yet they have finished their mock examinations. Those are some of the things I hope the Cabinet Secretary will look at and help the students and teachers to ensure that schools finish their syllabus by the end of second term so that children are left to revise all that they studied. This will reduce examination cheating. The other issue is the senior officials at the KNEC who are doing thriving business by selling examination papers to schools. However, when they are caught, you will never find them in the courts or know how the case was handled. The only thing you will know is the cancellation of examination results when the Cabinet Secretary is announcing the results. Examination cheating does not start on the day of the examination, it starts earlier. Therefore, you can use a mechanism to ensure that cancellation of examination results does not happen but because it is a thriving business and we are in a digital era, examination papers end up in the hands of students by June, even before they do their mock examination. As you may recall, there were days you could gauge the performance of a school by looking at their mock examination results. Those days are gone. Mock examinations then prepared students so that there was no cheating. If a student, for example, scored grade B upwards, he or she knew that there was excellence in the main exam, go beyond grade B and get an A. If you scored grade C, you knew very well that you are an average student and you can try your best to move to grade B. However, today, you cannot gauge the performance of your students in the main examination based on the results of the mock examination. It has become difficult. It is also important to look at the issue of ranking based on schools. As Sen. Wangari has suggested, we need to rank the individual student. Therefore, in any school, even one in the remote area which is a day school, a student can excel as in other schools. Even those students who come from a small school and have performed well have a chance to be ranked with the rest. People will wonder how they passed. That is where we went wrong. We believed that it is only Alliance High School, Starehe Boys’ Centre and School and Precious Blood that are the schools that when our children join, they will perform and go to the university. That is how we have made students to cheat because if a student is not in Alliance High School and he or she wants to join university, he or she has to do anything to ensure they go to the university. As was the case before, today, we do not have education officers who used to go round schools at random to monitor progress. As we realign this, the Government should come in. We also have many other factors that influence examination cheating. If we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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