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Mang’u is back, but do i say?
Ok, some vanity once in a while is good for the soul ……….. My former High School, Mang’u, emerged top of the nation in the just announced results of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education...
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more on the kcse: PB-Riruta 1st, Mang’u 4th nationally
Many thanks to the Nation. The newspaper reporters tabulated the mean scores of several schools and came up with a tentative list of the top schools in the country in last years KCSE exams. Top of the...
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2009 kcse results out
UPDATE: The KNEC system seems to be down, judging by the amount of comments and requests I have received in the last few hours. I guess the cell phone thing is not working after all. Even the Nation...
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democratizing kenyan schools
As a former prefect at Mang’u High School, I know quite a bit about the excesses of the prefect system. To put it mildly, prefects sometimes do go beyond the line. I am therefore glad that a student...
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kCSE results to be released tomorrow
The 2011 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results will be released tomorrow. The exam is a make or break affair for most students since it is the key determinant of whether they will...
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Is our children learning? (Credit to Bushism)
The Guardian reports: More than two out of every three pupils who have finished two years of primary school in east Africa fail to pass basic tests in English, Swahili or numeracy, according to a new...
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We Must Free Our Imaginations — Binyavanga Wainaina
A great thinker. A great artist. A great Kenyan. Part One (see also Parts Two, Three, Four, Five and Six) Joyce Nyairo of the Daily Nation has written a stinging critique of Binyavanga’s short...
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Rating Kenya’s Presidents
Jomo Kenyatta’s regime was corrupt, illiberal and competent. Moi’s was corrupt, illiberal and mediocre. Kibaki’s was corrupt, liberal and competent. So, Moi scores zero out of three. Jomo scores one...
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