Candidates who sat this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations will know the secondary schools they will join in May.
Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha on Thursday while releasing this year’s result said Form One selection would start on May 28.
“All the 1,187,517 candidates who sat the 2020 exams will transition to secondary schools, placement will be done based on merit, CS Magoha announces,” he said.
The candidates whose results were released on Wednesday afternoon form the fourth cohort to be admitted to secondary schools under the 100 percent transition policy.
The CS said there were enough Form One places to allow all who did the examinations to join secondary school.
“I wish to assure the country that the Ministry has already conducted an audit of all new and existing vacancies in all our private and public schools to enable us to admit all learners under the Free Day Secondary Education programme. We are determined to work with the relevant agencies to ensure that no candidate misses a place in secondary school,” he added.
Schools will open for Third Term on May 10 as scheduled except for all classes except grade four and form one still under strict Covid-19 control measures that were introduced last month by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
“As a result, we are scheduled to reopen schools for Third Term on May 10 2021 for all classes except Grade Four and Form One. We are hopeful that we will open as scheduled although we continue monitoring the country’s Covid-19 situation and the schools’ preparedness to adhere to all Ministry of Health guidelines of managing the virus.
