Dubious high grades awarded to exam cheats also lend credence to the notion that the country’s education system churns out half-baked graduates to the job market.
It has sometimes looked like impulse action crudely driven by fear. But recent efforts to get rid of malpractices in national examinations starting next week are spot on.
Reports of massive cheating in both the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCPE) exams greatly undermine the integrity of the tests used to promote candidates to the next level of education.
Dubious high grades awarded to exam cheats also lend credence to the notion that the country’s education system churns out half-baked graduates to the job market.
As they say in the world of computing, garbage in garbage out. But the government must be sensitive to the candidates’ right to a conducive environment for writing the exams that have a huge bearing on their future careers.
The countdown to this year’s KCPE and KCSE examination calendar has been characterised by intimidating official rhetoric portraying it as more of a national security affair than an educational event.
The Cabinet Secretaries for Education and Interior have been going round the country talking of massive deployment of police officers to curb exam cheating.
Unfortunately, such overzealous policing methods risk creating a hostile environment at examination centres that might end up affecting the candidates’ performance.
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