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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bitange,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Perhaps the likes of our Minister for Education, the KNEC Secretary and others that choose to call a spade by any other name should submit to your wise counsel.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And it's not just the software that needs examination. The KNEC Secretary and his officers should be placed under a microscope considering plethora problems that have perennially afflicted national examinations.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The abnormally high levels tolerance/impotence among Kenyans is perhaps to blame. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It's for this reason that ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuitu and his team of zombies are,</FONT><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bizzaringly</FONT></I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> still in office.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What of the top political leaders currently playing a dangerous chess game, with the 35 million Kenyans relegated to mere pawns?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It's an insult that Prof Ongeri, Mr Wasanga and his team of goofers at KNEC are still in office.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I long for the day when lynch mobs shall pay courtesy calls on such people and do what they do best.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Frank</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">kictanet-bounces+wanyama=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke on behalf of bitange@jambo.co.ke</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sent:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:53 PM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Frank Ojiambo</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cc:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject:</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Re: [kictanet] KCSE results fiasco explained?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">Dear Aduda,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">You are dealing with multiple errors here. The first error was created by</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">a computer programmer. The second error was created by either the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">reporter or the messenger who tried to correct error number one. Errors</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">of omission are common when fundermentals are not observed. We need to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">examine the software since Hardware (the computer) does nothing unless</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">instructed to do so.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">Regards</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">Ndemo.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> Colleagues,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> I would be excited to get someone who can explain how the so-called</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> computer error just happened this year and how a body (KNEC) entrusted</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> with the noble task of setting, administering, marking and grading marks</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> for our children could not detect the problem upfront. Is computer</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> becoming the latter day punching bag for grave human mistakes? And does</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> the computer generate its own data or fit's ed by human beings?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> If there is nay error here, blame my computer?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">> Aduda</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> ----------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> From: kictanet-bounces+daduda=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> behalf of Leonard Mware</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 1:29 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> To: David Aduda</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] KCSE results fiasco explained?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> <<<A HREF="File: ATT5157354.txt">File: ATT5157354.txt</A>>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> 'Outdated' as in fashion or not just not able to crunch figures due to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> 'uzee"?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> ----- Original Message ----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> From: John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> To: mleonardo@yahoo.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 10:11:36 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Subject: [kictanet] KCSE results fiasco explained?</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> >>>Daily Nation, 9th April.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> A programming error is to blame for last year?s KCSE</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> results fiasco in which the error led to the adjustment of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> mean grades for some students.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Education Minister Sam Ongeri said when he released a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> report on last year?s Form Four examinations fiasco</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> yesterday. The report blamed outdated computer programming</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> language for the error which led to the adjustment of mean</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> grades for nearly 40,000 candidates. It arose from the use</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> of an outdated version of a programming language at Kenya</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> National Examinations Council.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> >>>rest of story @</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>></FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco"><A HREF="http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=120791">http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=120791</A></FONT></U>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> I found it quite difficult to understand how an 'outdated'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> programming language that has been working well over the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> years suddenly begins to lose memory (its mind?) due to the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> 'ageing' process...ama are we experiencing Y2K bug ver 2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> remixed here?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> ...and now that the report is public, could Barnabas (ICT</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> Mnger, Education) shed some more technical light on what</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> could have transpired? Or maybe Prof. Kashorda who sat on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> the Investigation committee? Because technically I still</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> dont get it...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Monaco">>> walu.</FONT>
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