<font color="#000066"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I agree... Though what's really worrying at this point is the education bill, that's aiming to control private schools. <br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Ken Robinson says that schools have killed creativity. From the recent<br>
Kenya Union of Teachers’ (KNUT) strike it was evident that we are lacking<br>
in creativity. Three weeks of strike threatened the effectiveness of the<br>
Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) like never before. Why is KNEC<br>
linked to KNUT?<br>
<br>
In 2010 GCSE candidates took their exam towards the end June and the<br>
results were out by August. More than 700,000 students worldwide did<br>
mathematics and English while other subjects averaged more than 350,000<br>
candidates. At the same time about 360,000 sat for the KCSE in the same<br>
year between October and November but the results came out at the end of<br>
February. In other words marking our exams took twice as much as it took<br>
the Pearson’s Group (a private entity) to mark GCSE.<br>
<br>
GCSE exams are marked by retired teachers as well as other qualified<br>
people. It is a contract for which you are paid 800 pounds for the three<br>
to four weeks exercise. They heavily use IT to process the exams and some<br>
papers are marked by computers.<br>
<br>
The company offers a variety of qualifications, including A Levels (GCEs),<br>
Edexel (which is one of England, Wales and Northern Ireland’s five main<br>
examination boards and the BTEC suit of examination qualifications. It<br>
also offers work-based learning qualifications – including BTEC<br>
Apprenticeships through Pearson Work Based Learning, awarding over 1.5<br>
million certificates to students around the world every year.<br>
Since we benchmark on everything, is it not time we started to benchmark<br>
on our education?<br>
<br>
Ndemo.<br>
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