By Tsozungu Kombe
Lamu County Director of Education Joshua Kaga has lauded secondary schools in the region for producing impressive Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results.
Speaking to Education News from Lamu town recently, Kaga said that the 2020 KCSE exams performance improved greatly compared to 2019 results.
He further revealed that gender balance was also realized in the performance.
He singled out Lamu Girls High school which emerged top with a mean score of 5.9 followed by Mpeketoni Boys High school in Lamu West with a 5.7 mean score.
The other school that improved was Sacred Heart High school which managed to get a mean score of 5.3.
“The impressive performance in 2020 KCSE in the region was as a results of concerted efforts between students, teachers, parents and other education stakeholders”, explained Kaga.
At the same time, he urged all education stakeholders in the area to work as a team in order to improve education standards.
He also asked them to consider motivating students and teachers as a way of encouraging them to work harder and post better results in the 2021 KCSE exams.
