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After the release of the 2023 KCPE results on November 23, the placement exercise began immediately.
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Machogu reiterated that the government has enough capacity to accommodate all the 1.4 million candidates who sat the last KCPE.
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Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has said no secondary school should force parents to make purchases of uniforms from one specific outlet ahead of form one admission in 2024.
Machogu spoke on Monday at Lenana School in Nairobi where he released the 2024 Form One Placement results.
The CS said the ministry is committed to ensuring that parents and guardians with learners joining Form One are not overburdened with unnecessary requirements that have extra financial implications.
"Parents and guardians will have the liberty to source school uniforms from any distributors of their choice so long as the outfits comply with the specifications of respective schools," Machogu said.
"Schools have been asked to provide the specifications of their uniform, which include design, quantity required, and colour or shade."
Machogu said the move will empower parents to make choices that suit their budgetary constraints.
Machogu also announced that the reporting date for all 2024 Form One learners will be on January 15, 2024.
"In the placement, all candidates who scored 400 Marks and above were placed in either National or Extra County schools of their choice," he said.
Machogu said all other candidates were placed in county or sub-county schools, according to the parameters set.
He said learners with special needs were placed either in regular or Special Needs schools based on their disability categories, merit and choice.
Further, he noted that the Ministry has continued to apply affirmative action to cater for the needy and vulnerable children in identified slums and informal settlements in urban areas.
"This is in compliance with the Government’s policy of achieving parity in education," he said.
Through affirmative action, the ministry placed 130 learners in national and 167 in extra county schools. This comprised 150 girls and 147 boys.
"Besides the affirmative action on needy and vulnerable children, the placement also considered the Djibouti Declaration of 2017 on Regional Refugee Education and placed learners from primary schools located within the refugee camps," he said.
After the release of the 2023 KCPE results on November 23, the placement exercise began immediately.
Machogu reiterated that the government has enough capacity to accommodate all the 1.4 million candidates who sat the last KCPE.