Education CS Julius Ogamba Announces 2024 KCSE Release Date
Education CS Julius Ogamba has revealed that over 960,000 candidates who wrote the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination will receive their results in January 2025.
He was speaking at the Kabete National Polytechnic’s 5th Graduation Ceremony on Wednesday where he detailed that the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) examiners were finalising the marking.
This year’s examination, which ran between October 22 and November 22, recorded a number of cases of exam malpractice.
Data from the Ministry of Education indicate that 621 candidates were implicated in irregularities.
The culprits were found to have unauthorised written materials, mobile phones, and colliding with non-candidates to cheat in the examination.
For instance, Stephen Nyang’au Mbeche, who hails ftom Nyamira county, was accused of creating the “KCSE 2024 Leakage Group,” where he distributed fake examination papers.
Photos shared by the DCI showed Mbeche’s Telegram group had garnered 802 members, from whom the suspect asked for upfront payment to distribute the papers.
A detailed search at his premises resulted in the seizure of a mobile phone and a laptop, the supposed tools of trade he used in his illegal venture.
In some areas, teachers were implicated in instances of aiding in the circulation of the papers.
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