Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:53:07 +0000 FINALLY, the Ministry of Education has clarified assertions that have been doing rounds that pupils who drop out in Grade 9 will be repeating to Grade 6, effectively resting anxieties pertaining to this contentious matter. Since these claims surfaced in the recent past, media houses have been replete with letters and views from the public, many condemning this so-called policy as being very retrogressive and not well thought out. But in rejecting these claims Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Henry Tukombe succinctly explained that there was no such policy which required that candidates who failed Grade 9 are required to repeat Grade 6. The correct position, according to Mr Tukombe is that Grade nines that failed were required to re-sit only for the number of subjects that they needed to make a Grade 9 certificate. Mr Tukombe further explained that due to the increasing numbers of Grade 9 external […]
