Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has urged Education CS Ezekiel Machogu to give examiners more time to compile and give Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education candidates the marks they deserve.
Addressing the press in Bungoma on Saturday, Aggrey Namisi, National Vice Chairperson KNUT said KCPE results were rushed hence having errors.
Namisi’s sentiments come a day after speculations ensued on social media that KCSE results were to be released on Friday.
“Please CS Machogu, we are not in a hurry, give the markers time to analyze results well before you release, we don’t want to experience what happened during the KCPE examination release,” Namisi said.
“Let the examiners go through the questions, mark, prepare, and give credible results.”
The unionist decried massive exam cheating in the country calling on CS Machogu to return the Education system on track.
He says that there was a mix-up in the marking of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education citing incidents where pupils who did not do sign language were awarded sign language marks.
KCSE exams ended on October 27.
The Ministry of Education released the 2023 KCPE examination results for 1,406,557 on November 23.
There were errors witnessed as some candidates were awarded marks of subjects they had not sat for.
The Kenya National Examination Council acknowledged that 133 candidates were awarded the wrong marks.
Knec CEO David Njengere said they received appeals from some affected schools on dissatisfaction with their results as received through the SMS code 40054.