18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Speaker. This issue has been going on for quite a while. I would request that the hon. Chair of the Committee fast-tracks it so that if the culprits are brought to book---
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18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
Maybe, he can make it one week.
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you. I want to respond to the Statement raised by hon. Namwamba. He requested to know why Maranda National The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
School in Siaya County has not been ranked; the reason why the ranking was withheld by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the measures the Government is taking to address this serious aberration that has demoralized the entire Maranda National School community, Siaya and the whole country.
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
I wish to respond to this issue. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) cancelled the results of 23 candidates from Maranda National School in computer studies for the 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations. The results for the 23 candidates were cancelled after it was proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the candidates had colluded in the Computer Paper I451/1 examination. The KNEC’s mandate is to conduct academic, technical and other examinations within Kenya as it may consider desirable in the public interest and to award certificates and diplomas to successful candidates in such examinations. To do this ...
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
The KNEC has, therefore, developed rules to regulate all these processes including the ranking of candidates and schools. The KNEC policy or ranking of schools says that examination centers that have candidates who are involved in examination irregularities shall not be ranked by the KNEC except in cases where less than five candidates in an examination center were involved in examination irregularities. This means that Maranda had 23 which were not less than five. Further, cases where head teachers reported examination irregularities to the KNEC and where less than ten candidates in such examination centers were involved in the reported ...
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
useful and satisfactory. Meanwhile, the Ministry is to launch thorough in depth investigations about the teachers and the schools which were directly involved in perpetuating and abetting examination irregularities. Thereafter, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken.
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I would like to say that the issues before us--- I want to note that Maranda High School is a national school and the students did well. As narrated by hon. Ababu Namwamba and hon. Gumbo, the students did very well in those subjects. There were no irregularities in Mathematics and English. However, an irregularity is an irregularity. I want hon. Members to note that those students were singled out. An irregularity was noted especially in Computer Studies Paper I. It is known that the students colluded and cheated. The report ...
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think I shall table the report next week. I would have brought it here--- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly:
I think I will request hon. Members to come to our Committee and then we interrogate the report.
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