A dispute over national examination results has escalated at Mosoriot Teachers Training College (TTC) in Nandi County, where 930 students have protested a directive requiring them to repeat examinations administered by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC).
The students are questioning the decision, accusing the council of disregarding their complaints about technical challenges they encountered during online assessments.
The protests follow the release of the 2026 Diploma in Primary Teacher Education (DPTE) results, which show that only 17 of the 944 candidates at the college qualified for graduation, while 927 were referred.
The figures represent one of the highest referral rates among teacher training colleges in the country, with about 98.2 per cent of the candidates failing to meet all the requirements for graduation when the results were released.
Nationally, 5,348 of 13,680 candidates from 22 teacher training colleges were referred, while 8,332 qualified for graduation.
The affected students maintain that the online examination platform experienced technical problems, which they say interfered with their ability to complete the assessments. They argue that candidates should not be forced to sit the examinations again without an investigation into the difficulties they reported.
The trainees want KNEC to review the disputed examinations, examine the reported system failures and explain the decision to require another sitting.
The unusually high number of referrals at the institution has also raised questions, particularly as other colleges recorded significantly better results.
Mosoriot TTC held its 62nd graduation ceremony on September 11, 2026, for candidates who had qualified in various programmes, including P1, ECDE Certificate, ECDE Diploma, UDECTE and UDPTE. The 17 candidates who qualified represent only the reported 944 DPTE candidates, not the total number of graduates across all programmes at the college.
The dispute has put KNEC under pressure to address the concerns raised by the trainees and clarify the circumstances surrounding the examination outcomes. The students are seeking a fair resolution that will protect their academic progress while ensuring that the technical difficulties experienced during the online assessments are properly investigated.
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