Julius Ogamba announces KCSE candidates to take their certificates from government offices

• The government ordered KCSE certificates to be taken from sub -county education offices, not at school to prevent senior teachers from depriving them
• Education Minister Julius Ogamba announced the change saying it aims to help students get higher education and employment opportunities
• MPs questioned the implementation of the order, noting the failure to address the issue before, with school principals mentioning KSh 20 billion unpaid as legitimacy
• Policy changes will further affect the last categories of the 8-4-4 system, with no transparency yet about its use to CBC students

Nairobi – GOVERNMENT has announced significant changes to how secondary education certificates (KCSE) will be issued.

Students have been instructed to collect them from sub -county education offices instead of their previous schools.

Education Minister Julius Ogamba made the announcement while addressing MPs, citing concerns that school principals have continued to violate instructions for not holding certificates for not being paid.

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This move is expected to benefit thousands of students who have failed to access higher education or employment due to the prevention of certificates.

During the session, Ogamba did not specify whether the new order would also apply to students under the Curriculum Curriculum (CBC), who will receive certificates at the end of the Youth School (Grade 9) and High School (Grade 12).

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MPs in the education committee have been pushing the government to take concrete steps against schools that fail to issue certificates.

Many former students, they said, have been forced to do low -paying jobs because they do not have formal tuition documents.

Tinderet MP Julius Melly, who is also the Chairman of the Education Committee, participated in his reservations, questioning what makes Ogamba's directive from the former ministers.

“What will make these instructions different from the old ones that have never been implemented?” He asked.

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In 2019, the former Minister of Education George Magoha He suggested that they were students who could not pay only to receive their certificates unconditionally, while those who could afford to pay their balance would be required to do so.

School principals have defended the ban on certificates, saying institutions owe more than 20 billion unpaid KShs.

They say that issuing such documents without any kind of payment will disable the school financially.

With only three KCSE groups remaining before the removal of the 8-4-4 system, these policy changes will affect the final groups of 8-4-4 students.

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