National examinations are going on all over the country, but can you imagine missing one! Would you be happy? As Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) hit day 8 on Wednesday, Students from a higher learning institution who were to sit for their national exams that were to be commissioned by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) waited in vain!
The Kitui County based Jubilee College students yesterday protested in Kitui town after missing their KNEC exams.
The students blamed the college’s management for failure to register them with the Kenya National Examinations Council. The students said Knec did not deliver the exam on Monday when the tests were to begin.
They said they paid examination fees but were still not seeing any signs of the exam commencing. The missed tests include those related to technical and business courses.
Yesterday, the students said they were in the dark because the college’s management had not communicated.
They claimed the college’s director had gone into hiding. “It is a week now since the exam began yet we have not even seen the papers,” a protester said.
They asked the DCI to investigate the matter. Principal Hillary Musyoka said they will arrange for the students to sit the missed papers in July next year. “The problem was brought about by the huge fee balances. It is not of our making,” Musyoka said.
Can this mean that the students were never registered?
In most occasions, college students miss exams due to strikes that might lead to school closure, but for Jubilee College Students, it looks like some funds re either missing that led to students not getting registered.
Can you imagine that the examination council can fail to distribute exam materials to its registered candidates as required?
This might be the reason as to why the students are asking the DCI to probe the matter as they also demand an action from the education cabinet secretary Amina Mohamed.
Do you think the missed exams can be issued to them in July as the school principal claims?