huh! wakaimenyi says they have received 60000 kes! for refurbishment and infrastructural development (IT) for each public school.
60000 KES!!! for Cabling,set up, desks salaries, nani alifanya budget.

Results released. Strictly no ranking. All did well and are winners.

Need for patience because...

Makini can now merge Makini A and B. Their 22 best performing pupils were always registered as Makini A so the school could shine on a day like this one. The other 200 were registered in B and always had average performance.

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.

Its small monies when its about doing the real job. When its scandals, we talk of millions and billions.

agreed, ranking kids at class 8 is absurd, they should just demystify this kcpe and kcse thing, make secondary schooling universal and use cats coupled with an entrance exam as the basis of college admission.
then go ahead and do away with categorizing secondary schools and provide equal funding to all government secondary schools - admission to the same should be via a lottery, tuchanganishe the bright and not so bright kids in high schools wasaidiane.

Sometimes, things are just what they seem. In this case probably a lazy systems admin failing to do his/her work to keep the site up in times of high traffic like now. If each and every pupil (~889,000 of them) were to check results via SMS, that would be less than Kshs 25 million in revenue, hardly the sort of money that would make Safaricom stoop to such dastardly levels as to collude with KNEC to keep systems down, its like doing chokora like hustles with very bad and probable downsides for 15 bob .....but what do I know....

I am not advocating for it, just making a note for prosperity - ranking is done almost everywhere. Ours is probably just more flawed, but then we are a developing country. In countries like France, they have public "provincial"
- (for lack of a better word)-universities. All kids residing in the state/province are guaranteed a place there as long as high school equivalent education is completed. They also have the elite 'Grand Ecole' universities which are for whiz kids and a special high passing grade has to be achieved to earn a place there. Same goes for America and schools like Harvard, MIT, Yale, Wharton. Britain with Cambridge and Oxford

for universities its ok, thats where specializing and research happens, and you need a specific skill to achieve that - hata for gifted kids at primary and high school they can get their own special schools.
as for picking 12 and 13 year olds and categorizing them according to the performance in a single national exam, and then throwing them all over the country, I have always found that odd - what that does is to make high school education a rare luxury that has to be fought for tooth and nail, instead of it being a kawaida thing for all or rather majority of teenagers.
I am not aware of countries especially the developed ones, where there is a national ranking of primary education graduands and schools.
The stupid thing with the kenyans system is that, you pick all the bright students and lump them together, give them the best resources and them proceed to rank them against the others after four years.