YES! Finally a sensible policy. Hope the extortionist private schools won't "financially manipulate" Prof. Kaimenyi to bring that ranking thing back.
Maybe the statistics should be how many pupils sat for the exam, how many attained A, A-, B+, B, B-, ....., E, X, Y. And that's all.
Let's have educated kids, NOT CRAMMING GENIUSES. Even this Class 8 exams should be done away with all together. Minimum education level should be Form 4.
Some kind of "a College/Polytechnic/University course admission/entrance test" should be established by the Commission of Higher Education.
If you want to attain a welding degree, you sit for a "WELDING DEGREE ENTRANCE TEST". A KCPE/KCSE result slip with straight A's is not a reliable means of gauging a student's capability anymore. In the last ~27 years of 8-4-4, policy makers should have know better. KCPE should be done away with.
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