Kenyan government forms team to probe mass failure of teachers

The Ministry of Education has set up a team to investigate the mass failure of primary school teacher trainees in national examinations for the last five years.

Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed said the team from the Directorate of Quality Assurance will look into the reasons for the mass failure, which she said is worrying.

“I cannot speculate what is happening in teachers training colleges for now until I get the report so that we can understand where the problem is,” said Ms Mohamed while briefing journalists on the ongoing national exams at the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) headquarters in Nairobi.

However, Knec chairman Prof George Magoha has a reason why more than half of candidates who sit Primary Teachers Education (PTE) examinations fail every year.

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“These candidates are not reading and that is why they are failing in mass,” said Prof Magoha, noting that