David Kibet Koech

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the mock examinations-related reasons and claims of rampant Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) leakages and irregularities only helped to worsen the problem. A widely held claim that the KNEC uses mock examination results to validate Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results and rampant leakages in national examinations have damaged the credibility of the KNEC to the extent that students resisted sitting for mock examinations in the second term of this year with the belief that in so doing, the results would not be forwarded to the KNEC. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The other major general observations made by the Committee on the possible contributors to the students' unrest and strikes, include the following: Poor management of schools, overloaded curriculum, low morale amongst teachers, peer pressure, drug and substance abuse, indiscipline and rampant expulsion of students, impact of post-election violence and moral decay in society. The other factors include poor parenting; external influence in the running of schools; ineffective supervision of schools; misuse of mobile phones; ineffective guidance and counselling; less disbursement of Free Secondary Education Funds; poor prefecture systems in our institutions; poor communication standards; overcrowded and poor boarding facilities in ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The Committee has presented detailed and specific root causes of the unrest and recommendations in Chapter IV of the Report - I have not mentioned everything at this stage. Let view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: 4088 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 11, 2008 me highlight some of the issues in order to introduce the debate on the subject matter in this Report. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: First, on the Mock examinations, the fear that the mock results would be substituted for KCSE results whenever leakages and massive cheating in KCSE papers take place dominated the hearing. It was not the fear that the Mock examinations were hard. Even as we went round getting views, there was no convincing reason to explain the purposes of Mock results collected from schools by the KNEC other than what the students and public perceive. In view of this, the Committee recommends that Mock results should never be collected or used as a comparative measure for the national examinations. The Committee ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: With regard to post-election violence, the Committee heard that some students in our schools, if not all, witnessed the burning, killing and destruction of property during the post-election violence. Some were even mentioned to have participated in the demonstrations and in some of these acts. Some of the students, therefore, imitated and directed the violence towards their schools after what they did out there. It also emerged that some Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) students were not properly assisted to fully recover from the ensuing psychological trauma and found it hard to adjust when admitted to schools in the said areas. ... view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: The Committee, therefore, urges adults to embrace dialogue in solving disputes and grievances. As a country, we do not wish to see what happened in January and February, 2008, again. This is because it goes down to our children who are students in schools. It is, therefore, necessary to resolve our disputes and grievances in order to prevent copy cat actions by students. All the IDP students and all students in Kenya should undergo counselling to recover fully from the trauma that they still bear as a result of that. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to examination leakages and irregularities, the students, teachers, and parents, as I mentioned earlier, have lost confidence in the KNEC due to the persistent examination leakages and irregularities. This was said to be the main cause of stress and anxiety amongst students. Special mention was made about the widespread 2007 KCSE leakage and irregularities, including awarding of double results for an estimated 40,000 candidates. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: In order to restore integrity and professionalism in this institution, the Committee recommends that the KNEC be overhauled to pave way for a new team. The KNEC Act also needs to be reviewed to give stiffer penalties and allow for deregistration for indisciplined candidates. To control examination leakages, the Committee further recommends that examination developers be vetted well and that the calender of the KNEC be reviewed to allow candidates to sit for the national examinations outside the term dates and supervisors be also paid for the services they provide. view
• 11 Dec 2008 in National Assembly: As opposed to what happens in primary schools, when students are sitting for KCPE all the rest of them are sent home. However, in our secondary schools, the examinations are done when all the students are in session. That brings in the complication of control of the leakages. That is why we propose that this be done outside the term dates. It is crucial to note that those who supervise examinations need to be motivated. At the moment, the invigilators are only given transport to the schools and lunch and nothing on top of that. It is important that they ... view