Some 500 adult education learners in Malindi Sub-county in Kilifi County have passed the Proficiency Test, Education News has reliably established.
Speaking to Education News in his office in Malindi town recently, Malindi Sub-county Adult Education Officer, MMoses Uledi Mbaruku, revealed that some 680 adult education learners sat for the Proficiency Test in May 2025, and 500 learners passed the test, while 80 failed and were referred. They will re-sit the test in May this year.
He advised the learners who were referred to study extra hard to pass the test, arguing that there is no shortcut to passing examinations except hard work.
The Sub-county Adult Education Officer further urged adult education teachers in the area to prepare the learners well for the test.
Mbaruku, however, asked adult education stakeholders in the region to work as a team so as to make adult education programmes a success.
Additionally, he urged the stakeholders to cooperate fully by ensuring they provide essential learning facilities, noting that this will enhance effective teaching and learning at the literacy centres in the area.
At the same time, the Sub-county Adult Education Officer called on non-governmental organisations, charitable organisations, well-wishers and individuals in the region to come forward and support adult education programmes for effective operations.
He noted that already three organisations operating in the area have come forward to support adult education programmes.
The three organisations are Caris Foundation, an organisation from Canada, which assists in implementing adult education learners’ development projects in the sub-county; Elimu Resource Centre, based in Malindi town, which helps adult learners in digital learning; and Malindi Community Initiative, whose major role is to empower adult education learners to implement their own development projects in the region.
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Meanwhile, Mbaruku has revealed that some 80 adult education learners in the Sub-county will sit for the 2026 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) as private candidates.
He added that the private candidates have been registered by the Ministry of Education.
By Tsozungu Kombe
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