The Star (Nairobi)

Kenya: Repeat Class 8, Students Told

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Stakeholders in the Education sector concerned by the school calender (file photo).

Thirty-seven students from St Catherine's Barrack Obama and Michelle Obama Academy in Mtwapa ,Kilifi, who failed to sit for the KCPE exams have been instructed to repeat class 8.

KNEC says the pupils will be required to begin class 8 afresh as no other test could be administered for them.

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