Govt probes whereabouts of 261,000 learners missing from examination records

The government is facing fresh questions over the effectiveness of its 100 per cent school transition policy after new figures revealed that more than 261,000 learners who sat national examinations at lower levels cannot be traced in subsequent assessment records.The Ministry of Education has now teamed up with the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) to establish the whereabouts of the learners and determine why they did not appear in the registers for the next stages of their education.