RUNDOWN
• Ministry of Education is set to release the form one placement as well as the results of the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment.
• The ministry promised that the placement will be based on merit, equity, with affirmative action.
The Ministry of Education is set to release the form one placement as well as the results of the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA).

Having over 1.2 million pupils who sat their KCPE exams in 2022, will be placed in 112 national, 776 extra county, 1,301 county, 6,297 sub county schools. Other will join the 1,301 private secondary schools.

As maintained by the ministry, ten top performing students from each of the country’s 290 sub counties will get admission to the national schools of their choice, bringing to 2,900 the number of students who will get the schools they wanted.

The ministry promised that the placement will be based on merit, equity, with affirmative action considered especially for national schools and choice beside some education stakeholders faulting the computerised placement, saying it disadvantages some pupils.

“The government could let Sub-county schools selections to be done by teachers so that they select students from schools that are within their proximity,” Kisii KUPPET Secretary-General says.

The Education Ministry is also expected to give an update on the ongoing assessment of primary schools countrywide that is set to determine which institutions will host junior secondary schools in just a week’s time.

“As teachers, we want to know what will happen to students if they say some schools are not fit to host JSS,” says Meru Central KNUT Secretary General Caxton Miungi.

Still on the list is the issue of having different uniforms from the other lower classes and the fees to be paid which comes after some parents argued that this second phase of the CBC should benefit from the free education plan for lower classes.

By Jane Kibathi.