[kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal

Wed Dec 30 11:42:32 EAT 2009

I'm concerned about the hundreds of thousands of students that will miss high school. Last year 250,000 missed it. Over a five year period, this adds up to more than a million, in a country whose population is about 40 million!

Out of those who go to high school, only a handful end up in university.
Someone should do a sturdy on the loss to our economy. The government spends lots on money to educate 250,000 people annually who will not get to high school. With our current systems, most of these 250,000 will not get descent employment/stable sources of income. Most of them come from rural areas, which are the areas that need serious development and skilled man-power to drive the development. If I opened a branch of my company in some rural area of Kenya, who will I employ? Even if I employ some people, they would be threatened by the Mungiki-types (children who join gangs in order to extort money)

We need every child in Kenya, willing to go to school, to be able to archieve at least Diploma level. Without that, we should forget vision 2030 and competing with India and other Asian countries! The Chinese will continue building our roads, as Kenyans sweep them with brooms, not even specialized machines!

I would like to bring in a different perspective as to the low performance, which someone mentioned as seriously wrong. What would happen if most students passed their exams, especially now with record numbers enrolling in schools? Where will they go? You would have students with B grades missing high school. That would be a great embrassment to goverment. 

If money is available to buy fleets of new cars (which dont really add to our GDP), surely there should be money for better quality of education for our children (which definately adds to our GDP).

This is a national disaster.

O~(

--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Akich Kwach <kwach at archway-productions.com> wrote:

From: Akich Kwach <kwach at archway-productions.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal
To: kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com
Cc: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 9:39 AM

Gentlemen,
Thanks for sharing your concerns. I would agree with MM and Zachary because KNEC ought to have known every candidate and parents would be interested in getting their results at the earliest hour and should have tested the system's capacity ahead of time. It is sad upto this hour, I spent on SMS three times and no reply yet. If such trends continue, the ICT investments might just be a wate of public funds and citizens might lose faith in the so called e-Govt. I would humbly request the PS, Dr Bitange and the ICT Board to intervene and find out what transpired at the KNEC system.

For the parents who had 2009 candidates, I am concerned with the general national perfomance taking into account that subjects such as SST where candidates usually score high marks recorded poor performance, something is not right somewhere.

WISHING YOU A HAPPY 2010

Akich Kwach

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Subject: Re: [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal

> Thanks barrack
> For the candidate and their family they interacted with the ict system and the interface was the sms and the web. We should not hide behind huge traffic because the phenomena and the time is known and the implications.
> Another terrible failure is that i and many thousands kenyans  paid upfront to the ict system for a service that was not delivered
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> MM,
> 
> I guess it's a bit premature to blame the System, the problem stems from how
> the whole announcement was managed, it was improper for the Ministers
> handlers to say the results would be available on the site immediately after
> the speech, with the anxiety that had been going on i'm sure even the best
> servers might not have handled the hits, no wonder the systems were unable
> to cope, however this serves as a lesson to KNEC, i am sure they will do
> better in 2010.
> 
> Happy New Year !
> 
> On 12/29/09, mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
>> 
>> Zachary
>> This was the great opportunity for the ict system to prove its value to our
>> society. It failed miserably to just serve less than 1 percent of the
>> population and had to walk to schools. Zain however stood tall and 2228
>> worked.
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>> Subject:        [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal
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>> Date:           29th December 2009 09:59
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>> 
>> Despite the digitisation of  exam results by the Kenya National
>> Examinations Council (KNEC) and the Ministry of Education, the platform
>> doesn't seem to be working. My daughter is one of the candidates who sat
>> KCPE in November 2009. But more than two hours after the release of the
>> results by Education minister Sam Ongeri, the KNEC website from where the
>> candidates are supposed to check their results remains down. Worse still,
>> the 2228 no. to which candidates should text their index numbers to get
>> results is also not working but continues to consume airtime to the tune of
>> Ksh 20 per SMS. If this is not a rip off, then I don't know the definition,
>> coming as it does at a time when the ministry is reeling from a theft
>> scandal.
>> 
>> One wonders what else the ministry could be hiding. While announcing the
>> top candidates, Ongeri never mentioned the names of their schools. But it is
>> anyone's guess that majority of them are from private schools. Rather than
>> bash the media as he did during the release of the results, Ongeri should
>> tell us what is bedevilling FPE.
>> 
>> Can someone please help? MY daughter has refused to take lunch until she
>> gets her results.
>> 
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