{"id":11849,"date":"2026-01-08T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11849\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:51:16","slug":"kcse-results-to-be-released-january-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11849\/","title":{"rendered":"KCSE results to be released January 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Candidates sitting for KCSE. KCSE will be phased out and usher in the Kenya Certificate of Basic Education (KCBE) in 2028. \/FILE<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Education has announced that the 2025 Kenya Certificate of
\nSecondary Education results will be released on Friday, January 9, 2026. <\/p>\n

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba is expected to preside over the
\nevent in Eldoret, beginning at 9.30 am.<\/p>\n

A total of 996,000 candidates sat the national examination
\nlast year across various centres in the country. <\/p>\n

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has been finalising the marking
\nand processing of the results ahead of Friday\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

The ministry said candidates will be able to access their results shortly
\nafter the official announcement.<\/p>\n

Some parents had raised concerns over what they perceived as a delay in
\nreleasing the 2025 KCSE results, but CS Ogamba maintained that the process was
\nproceeding as planned. <\/p>\n

Ogamba said the ministry has consistently released KCSE results in January
\nand assured the public that this year\u2019s schedule had not shifted.<\/p>\n

In an effort to address longstanding issues
\naround withheld certificates, the ministry has introduced a new system where
\ncandidates will collect their KCSE certificates from subcounty education
\noffices instead of their former schools. <\/p>\n

The change is intended to prevent delays linked to unpaid school fees.<\/p>\n

The 2025 KCSE exams were administered between
\nOctober 21 and November 14, 2025. <\/p>\n

During the examination period, 418 candidates were flagged for various
\nirregularities.<\/p>\n

Marking also experienced a brief interruption
\nafter about 800 examiners staging at Maryhill Girls High School in Thika downed
\ntheir tools on November 30 over concerns about working conditions and
\nwhat they described as poor communication from the ministry. <\/p>\n

The Kenya National Examinations Council later announced that the matter had
\nbeen settled, stating that all examiners had received their dues and rejecting
\nreports that coordination payments were outstanding.<\/p>\n

Last month, the council cautioned schools
\nagainst holding onto KCSE certificates for any reason. <\/p>\n

KNEC reminded institutions that the law requires the immediate release of
\ncertificates and advised candidates experiencing difficulties to seek help from
\nthe sub-county director of education.<\/p>\n

The directive followed persistent complaints
\nfrom learners who said schools were retaining certificates to push parents to
\nclear fee balances. <\/p>\n

Some institutions have previously justified the practice by
\npointing to financial risks, saying tracking former students becomes difficult
\nonce they leave school. <\/p>\n

Other schools have cited unreturned learning materials or unresolved
\ndisciplinary issues as grounds for withholding certificates.<\/p>\n

KNEC reiterated that such actions are unlawful
\nand directed affected candidates to report any instances directly to education
\nofficials for intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Candidates sitting for KCSE. KCSE will be phased out and usher in the Kenya Certificate of Basic Education…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1143,8017,80,8018,8019,1451,98,100,101,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-11849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-kcse","10":"tag-kenya","11":"tag-knec","12":"tag-ogamba","13":"tag-results","14":"tag-star-news","15":"tag-star-news-kenya","16":"tag-the-star","17":"tag-the-star-newspaper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}