Pioneer School now allows student to sit exam
Pioneer School students celebrating with the top student after the 2012 KCSE results were announced. The school which had locked out a student from sitting the 2013 KCSE exam at the institution for failure to clear an outstanding fees balance has now allowed him back. PHOTO/FILE
What you need to know:
- Murang’a Education Director Ms Mary Gaturu confirmed the school proprietor had accepted the student back to the examination centre.
- Elsewhere, shock engulfed Mwangaza Secondary School in Makuyu Division of Murang’a South after a female KCSE candidate died hours after sitting for her Tuesday papers.
- The student is said to have fallen ill on Tuesday evening soon after she had finished the day’s examinations and rushed to a dispensary at Makuyu.
A private secondary school in Murang’a County which had locked out a KCSE candidate from sitting his examination at the centre has now allowed him back.
Pioneer School in Maragua had denied the student entrance to the examination centre on Tuesday as the 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exam started.
The student had apparently failed to clear his school fees balance and had been away from school since May.
Education officials in Murang’a had to quickly intervene to get an alternative station for the student on the first day of the national exam as negotiations with the proprietor continued.
The candidate had to sit his first papers at Maragua Secondary school.
But Wednesday, Murang’a Education Director Ms Mary Gaturu confirmed the school proprietor had accepted the student back at the examination centre.
“We successfully negotiated with the proprietor and he accepted to have the student sit his exams from the school,” she told the Nation.co.ke on phone.
“We are happy that the student will now do his exams in a conducive environment,” added the education director.
The student’s school fees balance was said to be running into hundreds of thousands of shillings with details that he has been using a private tutor after the parent failed to clear the fees due to financial constraints.
STUDENT DIES
Elsewhere, shock engulfed Mwangaza Secondary School in Makuyu Division of Murang’a South after a female KCSE candidate died hours after sitting her Tuesday papers.
According to Ms Gaturu, the student died early Wednesday morning from an unknown illness.
The student is said to have fallen ill on Tuesday evening soon after she had finished the day’s exam and rushed to a dispensary at Makuyu.
While at home, her health deteriorated and she passed on early Wednesday morning at around 2:00 am while being taken to a Thika hospital.
Her body was taken to St Mulumba Mission Hospital mortuary.
Another female KCSE candidate from Gakurari Secondary School in Gatanga was forced to do her examination from a hospital ward after she went into labour.
