Candidates sitting for this year’s primary and secondary national examinations might be ranked.
This is after MPs passed the KNEC amendment Bill, 2015 allowing in terms of academic performance and co-curricular activities.
“For purposes of ranking, KNEC shall submit to the Education CS data regarding the academic performance, in national examinations, of institutions of basic education that offer primary or secondary education,”
National Assembly Education Committee chairperson Sabina Chege said.
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The move will now force the Education Ministry to
rank schools despite the government abolishing the exercise in 2014 on grounds that it discriminates students in private and public institutions.
Chege said every county director of education shall submit the data regarding the performance in co-curricular activities of institutions of basic education that offer primary or secondary education to the director general for transmission to the Cabinet Secretary.
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The amendment now expects the Education CS to come up with the form and method of categorising institutions.
The criteria to be used unlike in the previous system where ranking was general regardless of national or district schools.
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